Cats and Clouds – There Are No Pillars in Observability with Yoshi Yamaguchi

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Zipkin

So I think that compared to new technologies such as Kubernetes or other CNCF projects, OpenTelemetry has a long history before its beginning. So now, OpenTelemetry is a joint project among the many SaaS vendors and also observability-related open-source projects such as Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin. And then, in terms of the APM vendors, including your company like New Relic, Google, AWS, Splunk, or Microsoft, Datadog, Dynatrace, and Lightstep, all of those companies are getting together to make the best solution to instrument the application. And each of those companies have their own struggles, and then they share those struggles and efforts with the community. So all the spec includes those histories and now get into one.

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Prometheus

So I think that compared to new technologies such as Kubernetes or other CNCF projects, OpenTelemetry has a long history before its beginning. So now, OpenTelemetry is a joint project among the many SaaS vendors and also observability-related open-source projects such as Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin. And then, in terms of the APM vendors, including your company like New Relic, Google, AWS, Splunk, or Microsoft, Datadog, Dynatrace, and Lightstep, all of those companies are getting together to make the best solution to instrument the application. And each of those companies have their own struggles, and then they share those struggles and efforts with the community. So all the spec includes those histories and now get into one.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 228 social mentions

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OpenTracing

And also, Morgan McLean now is the PM of Splunk. He was the main person who worked for OpenCensus, and then he tried to make OpenCensus and OpenTelemetry the first choice for the instrumentation for Google Cloud Trace and Cloud Monitoring. So that's the reason why I had to work with those libraries or the project. So Morgan McLean was really keen on communicating with the OpenTracing team because the objectives of instrumentation for trace were the same in the OpenTracing project and OpenCensus project. And he was really good at communicating with other people.

#Monitoring Tools #DevOps Tools #Developer Tools 27 social mentions

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OpenCensus

Yoshi: So actually, I was not the core member of OpenCensus or OpenTelemetry. But as a DevRel, I introduced OpenCensus for external developers because it reduces the effort to instrument the application, and also, it gives wider options for the purpose which backends to use. So I did a lot of talks externally. And then for that, I had to communicate with the internal OpenCensus team, such as Bogdan, who is now in the OpenTelemetry core team, and also, Jaana who now is working for the AWS observability production team, I think. So I started my relationship with OpenCensus at that time.

#Dev Ops #Cloud #DevOps Tools 13 social mentions

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observIQ Cloud

And then they contacted some famous log collection projects such as the Fluent Bit and also others like Stanza as well as Syslog, I guess. And I didn't read the whole thread of the conversation around log collection. But now, they set the Stanza as the first implementation of OpenTelemetry logs. And in Stanza, the observIQ with Stanza is merged under the OpenTelemetry log repository, so that's the status. And then, they try to standardize the format of logs based on the Stanza format, such as what kind of information should be included in log.

#Developer Tools #Monitoring Tools #Log Management 1 social mentions

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NewRelic

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LightStep

So I think that compared to new technologies such as Kubernetes or other CNCF projects, OpenTelemetry has a long history before its beginning. So now, OpenTelemetry is a joint project among the many SaaS vendors and also observability-related open-source projects such as Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin. And then, in terms of the APM vendors, including your company like New Relic, Google, AWS, Splunk, or Microsoft, Datadog, Dynatrace, and Lightstep, all of those companies are getting together to make the best solution to instrument the application. And each of those companies have their own struggles, and then they share those struggles and efforts with the community. So all the spec includes those histories and now get into one.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Application Performance Monitoring 15 social mentions

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Kubernetes

So I think that compared to new technologies such as Kubernetes or other CNCF projects, OpenTelemetry has a long history before its beginning. So now, OpenTelemetry is a joint project among the many SaaS vendors and also observability-related open-source projects such as Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin. And then, in terms of the APM vendors, including your company like New Relic, Google, AWS, Splunk, or Microsoft, Datadog, Dynatrace, and Lightstep, all of those companies are getting together to make the best solution to instrument the application. And each of those companies have their own struggles, and then they share those struggles and efforts with the community. So all the spec includes those histories and now get into one.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 289 social mentions

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Fluent Bit

And then they contacted some famous log collection projects such as the Fluent Bit and also others like Stanza as well as Syslog, I guess. And I didn't read the whole thread of the conversation around log collection. But now, they set the Stanza as the first implementation of OpenTelemetry logs. And in Stanza, the observIQ with Stanza is merged under the OpenTelemetry log repository, so that's the status. And then, they try to standardize the format of logs based on the Stanza format, such as what kind of information should be included in log.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 13 social mentions

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Google Cloud SQL

And then, as an example, Cloud SQL gives the tracing information into the Google Cloud Trace. And so that gives the information around slow query on a Cloud Trace. But now, Sqlcommenter is merged into OpenTelemetry. So other tracing libraries can collaborate with our RDBMS solutions. So if the RDBMS backend can provide the tracing information of a specific query to the trace visualizer such as Jaeger and Zipkin, then developers can get the SQL query really easily.

#Databases #Relational Databases #Tool 15 social mentions

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Google Cloud Platform

Yoshi: And the reason why I could survive is because always I tried to enjoy the technology that I work on, regardless of my will. For example, when I joined the Google Cloud team in the developer relations team, the area I focused on, the observability, was not my choice. I was assigned to work on the observability area because not many people were working on it on that day. At the time, I did not have much attention to observability itself. But I felt like, why don't I give it a shot? And then I started out researching what observability is, and also, what kind of products are around that area, and also, what kind of companies and people are there. And now I'm pretty much enjoying observability itself. And I am so excited to talk about it like now.

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Google Assistant

And also, before joining the Google Cloud team, I was always like that. So I had worked on Google Assistant for a while. And then before that, I had never worked on voice command-related devices or applications. And then, I started learning how to design the application based on the voice, only voice. That was a good experience for me because that gave me a lot of ideas around accessibility, for example. And then that kind of view gave me a good idea on considering what the information should be when we give specific information to other people. So I think the key is to enjoy the area you work on and make everything fun by yourself.

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