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Could someone please describe how this relates to opentracing? And if it's an apple to apple comparison, what the tradeoffs are? (especially from real world ex

Could someone please describe how this relates to opentracing? And if it's an apple to apple comparison, what the tradeoffs are? (especially from real world experience if somebody has any)

cube2222 7y ago
As another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676526) hinted me the answer, for anybody else wondering, they're merging into OpenTelementry: https://opentelemetry.io https://opentelemetry.io
- draffensperger 7y ago
  As mentioned in the post, the eventual home for this functionality will be in OpenTelemetry. Specifically, it will eventually be integrated into OpenTelemetry JS (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js), which is being built up from the start to have the core parts be usable in the browser. Disclaimer: I work for Google and was the original author of OpenCensus Web, and coached Cristian, the intern who wrote the post.
bpicolo 7y ago
Opencensus is Google's opentracing alternative. A merger for the two projects (now OpenTelemetry) was recently announced and is being worked on. https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/21/a-brief-history-of-opentelemetry-so-far/ https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/21/a-brief-history-of-opent...
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manigandham 7y ago
OpenCensus is a Google project to standardize metrics and distributed tracing. It's an API spec and libraries for various languages with varying backend support. OpenTracing is a CNCF project as an API for distributed tracing with a separate project called OpenMetrics for the metrics API. Neither include libraries and rely on the community to provide them. The industry decided for once that we don't need all this competing work and is consolidating everything into OpenTelemetry that combines an API for tracing and metrics along with libraries. Logs (the 3rd part of observability) are in the planning phase. OpenCensus Web is bringing the tracing/metrics part to your frontend JS so you can measure how your webapp works in addition to your backend apps and services.

Could someone please describe how this relates to opentracing? And if it's an apple to apple comparison, what the tradeoffs are? (especially from real world experience if somebody has any)

cube2222 7y ago

As another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676526) hinted me the answer, for anybody else wondering, they're merging into OpenTelementry: https://opentelemetry.io https://opentelemetry.io

draffensperger 7y ago
As mentioned in the post, the eventual home for this functionality will be in OpenTelemetry. Specifically, it will eventually be integrated into OpenTelemetry JS (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js), which is being built up from the start to have the core parts be usable in the browser. Disclaimer: I work for Google and was the original author of OpenCensus Web, and coached Cristian, the intern who wrote the post.

bpicolo 7y ago

Opencensus is Google's opentracing alternative. A merger for the two projects (now OpenTelemetry) was recently announced and is being worked on. https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/21/a-brief-history-of-opentelemetry-so-far/ https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/21/a-brief-history-of-opent...

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manigandham 7y ago

OpenCensus is a Google project to standardize metrics and distributed tracing. It's an API spec and libraries for various languages with varying backend support. OpenTracing is a CNCF project as an API for distributed tracing with a separate project called OpenMetrics for the metrics API. Neither include libraries and rely on the community to provide them. The industry decided for once that we don't need all this competing work and is consolidating everything into OpenTelemetry that combines an API for tracing and metrics along with libraries. Logs (the 3rd part of observability) are in the planning phase. OpenCensus Web is bringing the tracing/metrics part to your frontend JS so you can measure how your webapp works in addition to your backend apps and services.