Emil Mikulic, OpenCensus
Application metrics and distributed traces are immensely powerful for developers, but are difficult to automatically retrieve. Based off of the same technology used at Google, OpenCensus is an open source project that aims to make the collection and submission of app metrics and traces easier for developers.
In this talk you will learn about:
- The benefits of traces and metrics, and how we use them at Google
- The case for a common instrumentation implementation
- An architectural overview of OpenCensus, including integrations and exporters
- Introspection via z-pages
- Our vision of the future for instrumentation
While the Census project originates from Google, it has evolved into an open source collaboration between multiple cloud and APM vendors and the OSS community, and already supports Prometheus, Zipkin, Stackdriver, and SignalFx.
See opencensus.io for more details.
Emil Mikulic, OpenCensus
Emil works on the C++ implementation of OpenCensus. Previously he was an SRE at Google, and also worked on Google's internal Census implementation.
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author = {Emil Mikulic},
title = {Achieving Observability into Your Application with {OpenCensus}},
year = {2018},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}