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I have been watching this group since its inception, waiting for something that I can treat as a standard. They’re trying—and I am rooting for them—but from th
by tylerchr 7y ago
I have been watching this group since its inception, waiting for something that I can treat as a standard.
They’re trying—and I am rooting for them—but from the outside it seems piecemeal and scattered, like a side project that is nobody’s real priority. Meanwhile, other initiatives have so much movement as to be unfollowable: Zipkin! No, Jaeger! No, OpenTracing! No, OpenCensus! No, OpenTelemetry!
I am beginning to doubt that we will ever have a standard for distributed tracing.
- couchand 7y agoFWIW the OpenCensus website says: OpenCensus and OpenTracing have merged to form OpenTelemetry, which serves as the next major version of OpenCensus and OpenTracing. You'd never know it if you just looked at the other two websites, though... And Jaeger has always been on top of OpenTracing. So I guess there's more unity than it seems.
- tedsuo 7y agoYeah, it’s all getting stitched together. I would expect v1.0 of OpenTelemetry coming in March, with W3C Trace-Context headers as the default format for context propagation.
- tedsuo 7y agoThanks for rooting! I’m sorry it looks confusing. It took several iterations for the humans to converge on a single project, and achieve something like consensus about what we wanted. But it feels like we are there - there’s ~100 working on it now, and I don’t see any remaining blockers. From the inside, it’s felt like steadily rolling up a larger and larger katamari ball, if you remember that game.
- tylerchr 7y agoThat’s really reassuring to hear! Keep up the hard work, and I’ll keep an eye out for something in March or so. Until then, where is the best place to look for updates?
- mentat 7y agoIsobel is writing weekly summaries as "OTel Me More" with the latest here: https://lightstep.com/blog/otel-me-more-opentelemetry-project-news-vol-7/ https://lightstep.com/blog/otel-me-more-opentelemetry-projec...
- wikibob 7y agoI think it’s incredibly important that a top priority be to put a very clear banner on the OpenCensus and OpenTracing pages explaining that they are becoming OpenTelemetry.