Shirley is a software engineer at Grafana Labs working on solutions to facilitate observability. She is passionate about test code, pair programming and believes in facilitating communication through listening, empathizing and clear and understandable explanations. Outside of work, she enjoys bike riding, knitting, and baking.

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Getting started with OpenTelemetry

Navigating application instrumentation and monitoring can be challenging. In this presentation, I will share my journey as a Go developer using OpenTelemetry to collect and visualize telemetry data, while also explaining some of the underlying mechanisms.

Although OpenTelemetry is a widely adopted open-source solution, its implementation requires several key steps: instrumentation, data extraction, storage selection, and visualization. I will break down these steps and demonstrate how using the Grafana ecosystem makes it easier to get started with OpenTelemetry.

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