Improving Observability with OpenTelemetry and Linkerd

OpenTelemetry distributed tracing and metrics can provide powerful standards-based observability tools for your microservices applications, and Linkerd can now support OpenTelemetry directly rather than requiring translating from OpenCensus.

In this session, Linkerd Tech Evangelist Flynn and Dash0's Michele Mancioppi do a deep dive into the OpenTelemetry world, digging into how OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics work, how Linkerd interacts with them, and - sadly - why the extension is still called `linkerd-jaeger`. Join us to learn what's what with OpenTelemetry and Linkerd and get answers for all your distributed-tracing questions!