 So welcome everyone to the first open telemetry community day. My name is Austin Parker And I'm Liz Palm Jones You may recognize this from Sbash twitch hit open telemetry Tuesdays every Tuesday twitch.tv forward slash open telemetry Every other Tuesday now every other Tuesday. Yeah, we changed the schedule. Yeah, this is actually our second open telemetry community event we did a Observability focused event at the CNCF Cube con last year but this definitely is our first year being able to do it as a official as a official sandbox project officially about open telemetry specifically rather than about observability as a whole. Yeah So today Again, we want to welcome you to this event This is hopefully something a little different than if you've been to virtual conferences this year and You're expecting just eight hours of zoom Well, you might be We're as tired of that as you are like we want to have this be interactive We want to have you really participate and share because everyone here is an expert not just the people off on stage. So Yes, we all learn better together And so we've tried to make something that is a little more Interactive than maybe what you're used to And we'll go through that at the end of these remarks will kind of give you a tour of the platform and make sure everyone Understands how to use all the bits and bobs so that we can all make this the best open telemetry community day ever Which since it's the first one it will be by default So a couple of housekeeping notes first off, thank you to our sponsors New relic light step and Splunk couldn't do it without y'all Both at a event level and also at a larger project level And I believe we have lots of people in attendance from lots of contributors in attendance So give your all selves all a big pat in the back and thank you to your companies that generously You know donate your time. Yeah, donate your time to the project Second note if you would like to tweet about this event I would love for you to do that because that makes the good serotonin in my brain when I see People mentioned me on Twitter. So please use the hotel CD hashtag on Twitter or other social media and There's gonna be a lot of opportunities to kind of chat and connect and if you have questions that sort of flow over You know a time box for a breakout session or for the lightning talks later or for these keynotes Then we'd love to get all that kind of in the same place So in the CNC f slack, which you should all be in there is a channel Three dash hotel dash community dash day So that's where you kind of want to do a lot of the chat outside of like the zoom chat or the breakouts So if you aren't in there already then join up And with that said I think Liz I think you actually mentioned this, you know Whenever you're kind of doing a year in review or save the community or whatever I think it's good to kind of look back where we've been, right? So let's go back Fascinating year even if it worked for a pandemic Remember when we were all able to get together in person. That was so yeah, right? What's this? This was wild, right? I look at this. I look at the picture here of the crowd and just like Yeah People set right next to each other with no masks on what is this madness? Yeah, so last year we did the observability practitioner summit as day zero of coupon and we did a live stream of the event So now congratulations. Welcome. You are all part of the live stream for this year We also presented open telemetry to the world and to the broader CNC f community on stage at the tube at the Cupid keynote and There was also a maintainers panel and lots and lots and lots of workshops and talks about open telemetry last year At coupon last year But you know it it isn't just a one-time event right like open source development and governance is a longer term effort That we have to devote our energies to throughout the year And there are a lot of important milestones that we should celebrate that we've accomplished over the past year Yeah, so let's talk about the first one So we spent a lot of time on zoom calls and stream yard and And light stream not to be confused with light step over the past year as well So a lot of talking to each other and get her because you know if we can't meet in person At least we can see each other's faces on sick calls We can talk to each other and continue to drive the project forward and I think what's really remarkable and Personally, I have some numbers on this in the later slide, but it's remarkable how little the pandemic and sort of world events have Not we haven't really missed a step right like the project is From every metric that you can possibly imagine has actually done extremely well, and I think that's important to keep in mind So Let's talk about just some of the numbers some of the high-level stats here We've added two people to the government's committee two brand new members Congratulations from companies that were not previously represented So we're kind of diversifying a set of people on the governance committee both from a kind of diversity of the people and diversity of the Of their employer's perspective. Mm-hmm. Also another one Congratulations to Alavita we've also reached a milestone where we've over 200 companies have contributed code or documentation or issues or anything to the open telemetry project which is a huge milestone in terms of I Think adoption and and sort of the seriousness of the project from You know businesses from people that use all these the software in production, right or we'll be using the software in production and It's not just you know America, right? It's a global project that we have contributors in over 30 countries more than actually by South County at 30 and our overall level of activity both in terms of issues PR's muscle is there for a second issues PR's Myths has increased 400 percent year-over-year. So just comparing this time last year to today We're at a 400% increase and that's leads to over 1400 individual contributors and Over 110,000 contributions to the project in 2020 so far and I want to be clear that when we talk about contribution here Both dev stats and we view it as important just as important when people file issues triage issues leave comments on issues as When people commit code, right? Like the project is not just the set of committers The product is everyone who has in some way made the project better Yeah, and it's I think it's important to also note like It hasn't just been devs, right? We've seen project managers Get involved helping to triage issues helping to make sure that work is communicated clearly to both major stakeholders and the outside world to help coordinate sort of these big cross-cutting changes Up around the project. So it's it's really been a year of I think maturity for open telemetry. It's kind of gone from 20 30 50 people hanging around some zoom calls and figuring out how to take these two Disparate worlds and put them together into something that has its own identity and its own Real arc that you can see But wait, there's more there's more as the products matured It's not just been in sort of an organizational sense. It's also been an actual like use of you know utility sense, right? There's over 200 integrations exporters plug-ins for various components that have been added to the open telemetry registry not all of those are Things that we maintain right as a project. So a lot of these are actually third-party Integrations that have been contributing, you know that are maintained by people outside of the project, which is really cool to see we also have really broadened the set of Languages that we support when we announced last year. We had basically five or six languages that we were in beta 4 But now we have a much more comprehensive set of support for pretty much any language that you can shake a stick at That people actually use in production The other exciting thing is that the open telemetry line vertical Well, I guess or OTLP has really become mature enough that people can use it as the common way that they send Telemetry data and therefore a number of people have stopped using custom exporters and just said you know what OTLP is mature enough That we can just accept and consume it directly, which is really exciting Yep And that also has really helped the interoperability story with the open telemetry collector being mature enough So that people can use it as a Swiss army knife to both use open telemetry as well as older protocols and get all their data in one place It's really kind of like a Swiss army knife You know, it's the bridge from old to new and it's super exciting to see the collector mature and develop All of this has led us to having a huge amount of you know public adopters and support for the project So that's everyone from you know major cloud providers who who are releasing distributions of open telemetry that kind of works with their stuff to People that are adopting open telemetry in production in their systems today as a way as end users, which is as end users Yeah, so it's really on both sides of the equation. You're seeing people jump into this with both feet Which for a project that is still kind of hasn't had a general release yet is really impressive And it's all thanks to you See you internet Give yourselves a pat in the back So I feel like that's been a pretty good recap of the last year. Wouldn't you say Liz? Yeah, definitely There are lots of things that have happened that we can't couldn't include in this slide So I think that's a good summary of kind of where we're at. So now let's talk about what's ahead for us Yeah, so this is I'm sure everyone everyone that's on this call that has a Shall we say hotel contributor? Probably understands How good we are with dates and times and estimating those but let's see let's Like it's easier to have more certainty when you have more of a kind of track record and trajectory are rather than just You know throwing darts in the dartboard. Yeah, I would say we've gotten a lot better estimation this year, too But let's look forward to what is the near future hold well Right now we're expecting we have released candidates for Distributed for the distributed tracing component, right? If you think about open telemetry, you know Some of you that maybe are not as familiar with the project you can kind of break open telemetry into some Big cross-cutting components tracing metrics logs Context and tools so tracing which is sort of the foundation of a lot of this is Very close to being done Or at least Done enough for a 1.0 release. So we have released candidates of tracing in progress. That was announced several weeks ago and I'm not gonna say a date, but hopefully by the end of the year. We'll see those Release candidates be firmed up the more work that we get it get done on it including today when we have a chance to all talk face-to-face synchronously the faster it'll go and Let's see on the metrics run on the aim is to get released candidates out in the first half of 2021 Recognizing that metrics has been kind of a little bit further behind in terms of finalizing what the spec is going to be and therefore finalizing what the SDKs need to do Yeah, and we have a newcomer since last year, which is logging We've added on the logging sake and discussion about logging specification and that and that will be Hopefully progressing into an alpha in the first half of 2021 Quick question from the chat. What's an SDK? So the SDK is the software development kit, right? It's a it's the part of the code that makes the thing do There's a specification for the API, which is the thing you actually program against and then the SDK is sort of the implementation of that API so Yeah, I To you Person in the chat with a question. There's gonna be some breakout sessions starting after these keynotes So one of them is going to be kind of open telemetry for beginners I would certainly recommend that you drop into one of those and we'll be able to discuss all of them Some of the telemetry formats that we aim to support over the longer term and Tracing is just the first of them. So we've got more common. Yep. More more is coming But technical work is not the only use of open telemetry We also need to talk about the community right like this after all is the community introduction So let's talk a little bit about what the community milestones we have that are upcoming. Yeah So one thing I'm particularly excited about as a maintainer for the communications of SIG is Really working on all of this community content. So we are working on sort of a visual asset library and a standardized Design language, I guess you could say for open telemetry. So that would be creative commons licensed components about like If you have ever had to build a slide deck about a technical system you might Feel my pain of what is the icon for an open telemetry collector look like or a SDK, right? Like there's all these things and we want a way to kind of tell people about those things through You know iconic iconography So that people can have those shiny architecture diagrams except for you know, hey, this is a of us S3 This is Reedus right like instead. This is an hotel collector, right? Like we need that visual library so that people can describe things. Yeah So we're working on those the other thing that we definitely have had a need for a while Is that we've been developing workshops in a box for the past year and Kind of bringing those towards maturity so that more people can deliver workshop about open telemetry to the community That we can expand our user base very rapidly is going to be important once we're GA. Yeah Also next year there will be open telemetry 1.0. We'll have a big party. Hopefully in person and finally We've applied for incubation So this is a CNCF thing Incubation basically right now open telemetry is a sandbox project Incubation means that we've basically achieved a new milestone in terms of the maturity and adoption of the project Which means we get more resources from the CNCF and also more credibility in the cloud native ecosystem So please look forward for that or to that and Any other big community things you're looking forward to those? No, I don't think so. I think that covers it pretty well. All right So last thing then I want to give everyone a little brief tour of the platform and make sure everyone understands what they should be doing So that you can kind of get the most out of this so After this next keynote, there'll be a break and you will be able to go under this main stage I'll take you through this in the browser in a second but there's this breakout sessions planning and you can suggest a breakout session and you can also vote on breakout sessions and those votes will tell us as organizers like what breakout sessions we should have so be sure to go do that Also, if you've done that and you're looking to sort of just Have some voice chats or video chats with people We have this spatial chat networking So this is actually really cool you go into this and you kind of have an icon And you can move around and see where people are in this virtual room and chat with them. It's very neat so let me Actually show This so if you're in this main stage, you'll see this breakout sessions planning and in this you can add a thing up here, so Let's add one for workshops in a box I would submit and then My suggestion Right, so I could vote on this And the standard rules of open spaces apply like you don't have to Go to everyone that you vote for you're allowed more than one vote, right? Like yeah, you might be interested in it and we will try to schedule things appropriately Yeah, so there'll be and what'll happen is after this next break before these break out sessions start We'll update all these titles here, so you'll know what breakout is where And then you'll get to those like you got to this You'll click on the thing and then you'll have a join video and there'll be moderators in each of these to kind of help facilitate the conversation and you can also always post in the slack channel if you Would like to have people come to your breakout session or whatever so I Think that's about it And we actually have another great talk coming up on the history of open telemetry, so I don't want to Take up too much time. Yeah. Thank you very much for coming to open telemetry community day We hope you have a great day, and we will see you during the breakout sessions. Enjoy this next talk