OpenTelemetry Community Day is a time and a place for maintainers, contributors, and users of OpenTelemetry to come together and celebrate both our open source work and our successes with Observability.
The Zen of Python states “There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.” OpenTelemetry is the obvious choice for traces but bad news for Pythonistas when it comes to metrics because both Prometheus and OpenTelemetry offer compelling choices.
Let’s look at all of the ways you can tie metrics and traces together with exemplars whether you’re working with OTel metrics, Prom metrics, Prom-turned-OTel metrics, or OTel-turned-Prom metrics!
Paige Cruz is a Senior Developer Advocate at Chronosphere passionate about cultivating sustainable on-call practices and bringing folks their aha moment with observability. She started as a software engineer at New Relic before switching to Site Reliability Engineering holding the pager for InVision, Lightstep, and Weedmaps. Off-the-clock you can find her spinning yarn, swooning over alpacas, or watching trash TV on Bravo.