Thanks for the ping Dennis. Sadly, Elixir Friends is dead. I could resurrect it at some point, but I think I was trying to do too much 😞

All the episodes exist in YouTube (👇), but the regular feed is probably dead.

www.youtube.com/@elixir_frie...

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Nice! That's good praise for them. That's helpful for me too. I keep trying to see if there's a pain in the community/market (enough of a pain). But if people are loving it, no pain. 😄

Is there anything that would make you switch to a hypothetical competitor?

Do you use anything for APM now? Or just nothing? And given that you love sentry (always good to know if people love the tools), what would it take you to switch to something else? (it's fine if "nothing" is the answer.

Got it. Yeah, I've seen and used that before in things like Sentry and AppSignal. I think they're called "deploy markers" or "release markers" or something like that. But super helpful for knowing when we've introduced new issues.

Thanks for all the additional context!

I like that. Makes total sense to me. Nice dev experience out of the box for development.

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Nice. Thanks! I'll keep it quiet 😄

Interesting. Sounds like I'll need to reach out to find out more (if/when I do this 😄)

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Part of me wants this:

[app] Elixir's telemetry -> [lib] (telemetry -> OpenTelemetry) --> [External Tool]

So, you don't have to use OpenTelemetry directly if you don't want to. Can use Elixir's telemetry instead. But we communicate in OpenTelemetry (if it makes sense)

Interesting! How would you use that feature? Do you add any specific metadata? And what does it allow you to do?

Thanks. Strange you can't see that anymore. But it's been a little while since I've used AppSignal in anger.

Do you remember what kind of information they had that was useful that you no longer get?

Nice. Love the "things we don't need". Super helpful too! 🙏

I'm assuming you use dependencies like those listed in opentelemetry.io/docs/languag.... Do you like the experience from Elixir's side?

I've often wondered if it wouldn't be nicer for me to report from my app with Elixir's telemetry, and the library translates that to OpenTelemetry stuff.

Do you like the current integration of Elixir apps with opentelemetry right now? (I mean the Elixir-side of adding open telemetry)

Thanks for the pic Tyler!