Lesson series · 4 lessons

OpenTelemetry Collector: From First Run to Sampling and Context

Short narrated video lessons. Pause on any moment and ask about it. Anything beyond the series' sources is tagged “General knowledge”.

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   ~4:50

   Lesson 1 · 5 min

   How to run the OpenTelemetry Collector locally and send traces

   Trace telemetrygen spans from the generator through the local Collector's receive, process and export stages, and identify the OTLP gRPC, OTLP HTTP and ZPages ports.

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2. 

   ~4:55

   Lesson 2 · 5 min

   How do OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines wire components together?

   Trace how a receiver, processors and exporter are declared and then wired into a service pipeline, and predict what a missing, misordered or connector-linked component does.

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3. 

   ~5:00

   Lesson 3 · 5 min

   Head vs tail sampling in OpenTelemetry: which should you choose?

   Given a tracing scenario, choose head sampling, tail sampling, or both, and justify the choice by weighing cost, representativeness, and whether whole-trace criteria like errors matter.

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   ~4:52

   Lesson 4 · 5 min

   How does trace context travel between services in OpenTelemetry?

   Trace how a traceparent header carries trace and span IDs from Frontend to Product Catalog, and explain how inject and extract link their spans, logs and metrics.

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