APM Without the Vendor Lock-in: Distributed Traces, Correlated Metrics & Rich Logging, With No Code Pollution

While Application Performance Monitoring (APM) has become a staple in modern SRE & DevOps, one problem remains: How to deeply integrate your codebase with a vendor, without locking yourself in with proprietary code. The industry has offered many standards and attempts, but until recently, nothing has stuck. Now, there is a new standard in town, and it promises to unlock sophisticated value, with absolutely no vendor lock-in. In this webinar, we’ll explore some best practices for configuring OpenTelemetry to drive high performance, sophisticated APM, while shielding your code from the creeping dangers of vendor lock-in. —------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attendees will learn: Instrumentation of code, from browser to backend, to generate distributed traces in microservice environments, without a single proprietary line. Deployment strategies and their implications in Kubernetes, to better understand the tradeoffs with the OpenTelemetry collector. Instrumenting serverless Lambda functions, using layers and purely open source technology, to further decouple code from the details of span generation.