How to instrument your .NET applications with Open Telemetry

In this episode, Alex Thissen is talking about how you can use Open Telemetry to instrument your .NET applications. 00:00:10 - Introduction 00:01:00 - Inner / outer loop in DevOps practices 00:02:16 - Closing the loop 00:03:36 - Telemetry data flow 00:05:24 - Different types of instrumentation 00:07:02 - Open Telemetry introduction 00:10:14 - Instrumenting a distributed system 00:11:29 - Tracing demo 00:32:30 - Metrics demo 00:38:48 - Logging demo 00:40:11 - Combining multiple telemetry types 00:46:02 - Collectors and exporters 00:53:05 - Wrap up Below you find links to some additional resources and the GitHub repository containing the sample code showed during the demos. .NET 8.0 Logging, metrics and tracing: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspn... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dot... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dot... Azure Monitor and Application Insights: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azu... OpenTelemetry documentation: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/ https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrum... Demos : https://github.com/alexthissen/opente... This video was made possible by Info Support (https://www.infosupport.com) and DotNed, the Dutch .NET Usergroup (https://www.dotned.nl). --