API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025: Full Schedule

2:00pm PDT

[Virtual Exclusive] PRO WORKSHOP (CloudX): Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing

Wednesday September 10, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT

Nicolas Fränkel, Loft Labs, Developer Advocate

\racking a request’s flow across different components in distributed systems is essential. With the rise of microservices, their importance has risen to critical levels. Some proprietary tools for tracking have been used already: Jaeger and Zipkin naturally come to mind.

Observability is built on three pillars: logging, metrics, and tracing. OpenTelemetry is a joint effort to bring an open standard to them. Jaeger and Zipkin joined the effort so that they are now OpenTelemetry compatible.

In this talk, I’ll describe the above in more detail and showcase a (simple) use case to demo how you could benefit from OpenTelemetry in your distributed architecture.

Speakers

Nicolas Fränkel

Developer Advocate, Loft Labs

Nicolas Fränkel is a technologist focusing on cloud-native technologies, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and system observability. His focus revolves around creating technical content, delivering talks, and engaging with developer communities to promote the adoption of modern software practices... Read More →

Wednesday September 10, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
VIRTUAL CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Additional Topics OpenTelemetry
Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks CloudX, Service Monitoring and Observability (CloudX), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual, Virtual Exclusive

API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025

2:00pm PDT

Nicolas Fränkel

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