OpenTelemetry in .NET Explained

OpenTelemetry is the future of observability and application performance monitoring (APM) in .NET, and just this past week it’s come out of beta on NuGet. In this video we explore OpenTelemetry’s concepts, explain how the OTel implementation works in .NET, and demonstrate how to use the syntax and NuGet packages quickly and easily inside your own applications. Source Code: https://github.com/Aaronontheweb/OpenTelemetry.Demo.AspNet Blog Post: https://aaronstannard.com/opentelemetry-dotnet6/ Intro (0:00) Origins of OpenTelemetry (0:28) What OTEL Does Differently (5:44) .NET OTEL Architecture (10:15) OpenTelemetry Tracing Concepts (16:41) OpenTelemetry Metrics Concepts (21:37) Demo Overview (23:00) OTEL NuGet Packages (24:01) OTEL Resources (25:00) OTEL Tracing Configuration (26:35) OTEL Metrics Configuration (28:28) Calling OTEL APIs in .NET (29:10)