Metrics, Logs, Traces - Observability with Open Source using OpenTelemetry (AWS Usergroup Cologne)

In cloud-native technology stacks, distributed and polyglot architectures are the norm. Distributed architectures introduce a variety of operational challenges including how to solve availability and performance issues quickly. Downtime in applications and services may cost a lot of money. Therefore, it becomes critical to have full visibility of the state of your workloads and, as important, to be able to act on it as close to real-time as possible. These challenges have led to the rise of observability. Telemetry data is needed to power observability products. Traditionally, telemetry data has been provided by either open-source projects or commercial vendors. With a lack of standardization, the net result is the lack of data portability and the burden on the user to maintain the instrumentation.

This session introduces the OpenTelemetry project which solves these problems by providing a single, vendor-agnostic solution. We'll take a look at the different parts of the specification and how OpenTelemetry integrates with Java, popular frameworks and libraries. Finally we look at the interaction with Cloud infrastructure and how the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) simplifies the integration with AWS monitoring and observability services such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray.

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1. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Metrics, Logs, Traces Observability with Open Source using OpenTelemetry Dennis Kieselhorst Sr. Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services
2. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates.
3. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. What is observability? DETECT INVESTIGATE REMEDIATE
4. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Foundation for observability METRICS TRACES LOGS
5. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Foundation for observability METRICS TRACES LOGS ✓Discrete events ✓Usually timestamped ✓Can be structured
6. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Foundation for observability METRICS TRACES LOGS ✓ Regularly sampled data points (timestamped) ✓ Numeric value ✓ Dimension/Labels grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/1244
7. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Foundation for observability METRICS TRACES LOGS jaegertracing.io/docs/1.18/ Request path across a number of services
8. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. CNCF Cloud Native Landscape http://l.cncf.io
9. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. CNCF Cloud Native Landscape http://l.cncf.io
10. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. CNCF end-user technology radar „1. The most commonly adopted tools are open source. 2. There’s no consolidation in the observability space. 3. Prometheus and Grafana are frequently used together.” https://radar.cncf.io/2020-09-observability https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/09/11/cncf-end-user-technology-radar-observability-september-2020/
11. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. What is OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. You can use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to understand your software's performance and behavior. A N O B S E R V A B I L I T Y F R A M E W O R K F O R C L O U D - N A T I V E S O F T W A R E Broad Language Support Java | C# | Go | JavaScript | PHP | Python | Rust | C++ | Erlang/Elixir | .NET | Swift Integrates With Popular Frameworks and Libraries MySQL | Redis | Django | Kafka | Jetty | Akka | RabbitMQ | Spring | Flask | net/http | gorilla/mux | WSGI | JDBC | PostgreSQL https://opentelemetry.io
12. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. OpenTelemetry Reference architecture https://opentelemetry.io/docs/
13. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. OpenTelemetry status METRICS TRACES LOGS API: stable SDK: mixed Protocol: stable https://opentelemetry.io/status/ API: draft SDK: draft Protocol: stable API: stable SDK: stable Protocol: stable
14. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Tracing concepts Frontend API Gateway Trace Amazon SQS queue Amazon DynamoDB Table Function Function AWS X-Ray Segments/ OpenTelemetry Spans Sub-segments/ Spans Request Response Amazon Rekognition
15. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Tracing concepts in a nutshell • Span represents an operation within a transaction. Typically encapsulates: operation name, a start and finish timestamp, attributes (a list of key-value pairs), events, a parent span identifier, links to other spans, and a SpanContext. • Trace defined implicitly by its spans. A trace can be thought of as a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of spans where the edges between spans are defined as parent/child relationships. • SpanContext represents all the information that identifies Span in the Trace and MUST be propagated to child Spans and across process boundaries. A SpanContext contains the tracing identifiers and the options that are propagated from parent to child Spans. • Tracer is responsible for tracking the currently active span. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry- specification/blob/main/specification/overview.md#tracing-signal
16. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. 19 Demo Blog: https://a.co/5sIvwvL Workshop: https://observability.workshop.aws
17. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates.
18. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Getting started: OpenTelemetry with Java applications Manual instrumentation opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk libraries available to e.g. create spans programmatically https://opentelemetry.io/docs/java/manual_instrumentation/ Auto instrumentation Java agent attached to the JVM https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java- instrumentation#getting-started https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java- instrumentation/blob/main/docs/supported-libraries.md https://opentelemetry.io/docs/java/
19. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Collector Deployment • Agent: A Collector instance running with the application or on the same host as the application (e.g. binary, sidecar, or daemonset). • Gateway: One or more Collector instances running as a standalone service (e.g. container or deployment) typically per cluster, datacenter or region. Components • Receivers: How to get data into the Collector; these can be push or pull based • Processors: What to do with received data • Exporters: Where to send received data; these can be push or pull based • Pipelines: Enable the components V E N D O R - A G N O S T I C W A Y T O R E C E I V E , P R O C E S S A N D E X P O R T T E L E M E T R Y D A T A https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/data-collection/
20. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Collector setup in the demo
21. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. OpenTelemetry Collector https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
22. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Collector configuration https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel- lambda/blob/main/adot/collector/config.yaml https://github.com/open- telemetry/opentelemetry- collector/blob/main/examples/de mo/otel-collector-config.yaml https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/configuration/
23. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry A S E C U R E , O P E N S O U R C E D I S T R I B U T I O N S U P P O R T E D B Y A W S 33 • Upstream-first distro of the popular CNCF project • Certified by AWS for security and predictability • Backed by AWS support • One-click deploy and configure from Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda consoles • Exporters for AWS monitoring solutions including – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and 3rd party Partner solutions
24. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. AWS OTel Collector Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Workspace AWS EMF Exporter Prometheus Exporter AWS X-Ray Exporter OTLP Receiver Processor Amazon CloudWatch AWS X-Ray Example: OpenTelemetry Collector on AWS 𝜇Service1 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) AWS Container Insights Receiver Prometheus Receiver
25. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Q&A 39
26. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Resources • Observability Workshop: https://observability.workshop.aws • Developer Portal: https://aws-otel.github.io • Overview page: http://aws.amazon.com/otel • Roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/aws-observability/projects/4 • Feature requests, bugs: https://github.com/aws- observability/aws-otel-community/issues • OpenTelemetry spec https://github.com/open- telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/tree/main/specification • Contact us on Gitter: https://gitter.im/aws-otel- distro/community
27. CLOUDLAND 2022 - OPENTELEMETRY © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Thank you! © 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Dennis Kieselhorst linkedin.com/in/kieselhorst/