Distributed Tracing & Open Telemtry

📘 Resources

• Awesome OpenTelemetry - A curated list of OpenTelemetry resources
• open-telemetry/semantic-conventions - Defines standards for generating consistent, accessible telemetry across a variety of domains

📕 Articles

• What is OpenTelemetry? - opentelemetry.io
• OpenTelemetry Specification Overview - opentelemetry.io
• OpenTelemetry Specification - opentelemetry.io
• Trace Semantic Conventions - opentelemetry.io
• Baggage in OpenTelemetry - opentelemetry.io
• Tracing in OpenTelemetry - opentelemetry.io
• Metrics in OpenTelemetry - opentelemetry.io
• Getting Started - opentelemetry.io
• Using instrumentation libraries - opentelemetry.io
• Manual Instrumentation - opentelemetry.io
• Exporters - opentelemetry.io
• Collect a distributed trace
• NET distributed tracing concepts
• Adding distributed tracing instrumentation
• OpenTelemetry .NET API
• Getting Started with OpenTelemetry .NET in 5 Minutes
• OpenTelemetry .NET SDK
• Extending the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK
• Customizing OpenTelemetry .NET SDK
• EventSource User’s Guide
• DiagnosticSource User's Guide
• Activity User Guide
• Improve Activity API usability and OpenTelemetry integration
• Improve Activity API usability and OpenTelemetry integration (Part 2)
• The TraceEvent Library Programmers Guide
• Messaging Attributes Conventions)
• Semantic conventions for HTTP spans
• Semantic conventions for RPC spans
• The Big Pieces: OpenTelemetry specification
• The Big Pieces: OpenTelemetry context propagation
• The Big Pieces: OpenTelemetry client design and architecture
• The Big Pieces: OpenTelemetry Collector design and architecture
• Using W3C Trace Context standard in distributed tracing
• Building End-to-End Diagnostics and Tracing: An Intro
• Distributed Tracing in ASP.NET Core with Jaeger and Tye Part 1 - Distributed Tracing
• Distributed Tracing in ASP.NET Core with Jaeger and Tye Part 2 - Project Tye
• Getting Started with OpenTelemetry .NET C#
• OpenTelemetry .NET reaches v1.0
• Deep Dive into Open Telemetry for .NET
• Open Telemetry for ASP.NET Core
• Exporting Open Telemetry Data to Jaeger
• OpenTracing and C#
• OpenTracing and C#: part 2
• Getting started with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing in .NET Core
• Distributed Tracing with OpenTracing API of .NET Core Applications on Kubernetes
• How Distributed Tracing Solves One of the Worst Microservices Problems
• Why You Should be Paying Attention to OpenTracing
• The Current State of OpenTelemetry in .NET
• Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed apps
• ASP.NET Core Apps Observability
• A Step by Step Guide to Logging in ASP.NET Core 5
• Diagnostics in .Net Core 3: Listening to outbound HTTP requests
• Trace Context
• Propagation format for distributed trace context: Baggage
• Using Jaeger and OpenTelemetry SDKs in a mixed environment with W3C Trace-Context
• Distributed Tracing In .NET
• Diagnostics Improvements in .NET Core 3.0
• Distributed Tracing with gRPC and OpenTelemetry
• Introducing diagnostics improvements in .NET Core 3.0
• Using the DiagnosticSource in .NET Core: Theory
• Add SkyWalking + SkyApm-dotnet distributed link tracking system to the microservice framework Demo.MicroServer
• Asp.Net Core uses Skywalking to implement distributed link tracking
• ASP.NET Core Apps Observability
• OpenTelemetry in .NET
• Increasing Trace Cardinality with Activity Tags and Baggage
• Monitoring a .NET application using OpenTelemetry
• What is the difference between Logging, Tracing & Profiling?
• Fullstack app (workshop) with distributed tracing, logging and monitoring
• OpenTelemetry in .NET
• Distributed tracing for messaging application
• Distributed application with Project Tye
• Tracing for messaging application
• Optimally Configuring Open Telemetry Tracing for ASP.NET Core
• OpenTelemetry in Action: Optimizing Database Operations
• OpenTelemetry in Action: Identifying Database Dependencies
• Just-in-Time Nomad: Running the OpenTelemetry Collector on Hashicorp Nomad with HashiQube
• How to setup OpenTelemetry instrumentation in ASP.NET core
• What is OpenTelemetry?
• Getting started with OpenTelemetry Metrics in .NET. Part 1: Key concepts ⭐
• Getting started with OpenTelemetry Metrics in .NET. Part 2: Instrumenting the BookStore API ⭐
• OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing
• OpenTelemetry Tracing API for .NET
• Set up OpenTelemetry with Event Sourcing and Marten
• Automatic Instrumentation of Containerized .NET Applications With OpenTelemetry ⭐
• Instrumenting .NET Apps with OpenTelemetry
• Observability with Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry in .net microservices ⭐
• Observing .NET microservices with OpenTelemetry - logs, traces and metrics ⭐
• Supporting Jaeger with native OTLP
• OTLP Specification 1.0.0
• Introducing native support for OpenTelemetry in Jaeger
• .NET Aspire dashboard is the best tool to visualize your OpenTelemetry data during local development
• Trace Propagation and Public API Endpoints in .NET – Part 1 (Disable All)
• Where are my traces? (weird .NET meets OpenTelemetry gotcha)
• Monitoring Unit Tests with OpenTelemetry in .NET
• Automated Tests instrumentation via OpenTelemetry and Aspire Dashboard
• A Beginner's Guide to the OpenTelemetry Collector ⭐

📺 Videos

• Jimmy Bogard - Distributed Tracing Made Easy with .NET Core and OpenTelemetry
• On .NET Live - Cloud Native Patterns for .NET Developers
• Distributed Tracing Made Easy with .NET Core - Jimmy Bogard
• Distributed Tracing Made Easy with .NET 5, with Jimmy Bogard
• Distributed Tracing with .NET 5
• ASP.NET Core Series: Tracing
• Distributed Tracing with Jaeger [Microservices .NET]
• Application Diagnostics in .NET Core 3.1 - Damian Edwards & David Fowler
• DiagnosticSource and Activity, Tracing in .NET Part 1 - .NET Concept of the Week - Episode 18
• Tracing with Jaeger and Kubernetes
• Exploring distributed tracing with ASP NET Core 6
• OpenTelemetry with Minimal APIs in .NET 6
• OpenTelemetry will save your day and night - Alexey Zimarev - NDC Oslo 2021
• OpenMetrics, OpenTracing, OpenTelemetry - are we there yet? - Alexey Zimarev - NDC Oslo 2020
• MassTransit v8 - Open Telemetry
• .NET Diagnostics for Applications: Best Practices
• Distributed Tracing in .NET 6 using OpenTelemetry - Martin Thwaites - NDC Copenhagen 2022
• Cloud-native development with .NET 8 | Microsoft Build 2023
• Practical OpenTelemetry for .NET - Martin Thwaites - NDC Oslo 2023
• Getting started with the OpenTelemetry Collector

📦 Libraries

• SkyAPM/SkyAPM-dotnet - The .NET/.NET Core instrument agent for Apache SkyWalking
• opentracing-contrib/csharp-netcore - OpenTracing instrumentation for .NET Core & .NET 5 apps
• jaegertracing/jaeger-client-csharp - C# client (tracer) for Jaeger
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet - The OpenTelemetry .NET Client
• SkyAPM/SkyAPM-dotnet - The .NET/.NET Core instrument agent for Apache SkyWalking
• jbogard/MongoDB.Driver.Core.Extensions.DiagnosticSources - extends the core MongoDB C# driver to expose telemetry information via System.Diagnostics.
• jbogard/NServiceBus.Extensions.Diagnostics.OpenTelemetry
• jbogard/MongoDB.Driver.Core.Extensions.DiagnosticSources
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib - This repository contains set of components extending functionality of the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK. Instrumentation libraries, exporters, and other components can find their home here.
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.InMemory - The in-memory exporter stores data in a user provided memory buffer.
• alexvaluyskiy/prometheus-net-contrib - Exposes .NET core diagnostic listeners and counters
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib - Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/ - OpenTelemetry Collector
• grafana/grafana-opentelemetry-dotnet - Grafana's distribution of OpenTelemetry instrumentation for .NET

🚀 Samples

• karlospn/opentelemetry-tracing-demo - Example about how to use OpenTelemetry for tracing when we have a series of distributed applications communicating between them
• jbogard/nsb-diagnostics-poc
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/examples
• damikun/trouble-training - FullStack app workshop with distributed tracing and monitoring. This shows the configuration from React frontend to .NetCore backend.
• andreatosato/Photobook
• rafaelldi/open-telemetry-in-dotnet - Sample project for the article about OpenTelemetry in .NET
• rafaelldi/distributed-tracing-for-messaging - Sample project for the article about distributed tracing in messaging application
• thangchung/practical-opentelemetry - Make OpenTelemetry works on .NET Core with features such as tracing, logs and metrics on multiple protocols like HTTP/gRPC/UDP/TCP...
• jbogard/presentations/DistributedTracing
• james-world/oxford-otel-demo
• hashicorp/nomad-open-telemetry-getting-started - OpenTelemetry getting started guides on Nomad
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/nomad
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/examples/demo
• joaofbantunes/ExploringDistributedTracingWithAspNet
• davidfowl/TodoApi
• oskardudycz/EventSourcing.NetCore
• Eventuous/eventuous
• kimcuhoang/practical-net-otelcollector ⭐ - Practical .NET Observability with OpenTelemetry Collector
• cecilphillip/grafana-otel-dotnet ⭐ - Sample setup showing ASP.NET Core observability with Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Opentelemetry Collector
• bradygaster/dotnet-cloud-native-build-2023
• bravecobra/emojivoto-dotnet
• davidfowl/OtlpDemo ⭐
• JamesNK/aspnetcore-grafana - Grafana dashboards for ASP.NET Core metrics
• joaofbantunes/DotNetMicroservicesObservabilitySample - Sample application looking into observability of .NET microservices, using popular tools and technologies like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and (potentially) others
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo ⭐ - This repository contains the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed system intended to illustrate the implementation of OpenTelemetry in a near real-world environment.
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/examples/demo