AFAIK there's no drop-in replacement. We did it by intercepting in the SDK's BeforeSend and passing the ctx via event hints.
Inside BeforeSend, we manually parsed the sentry event & called otel's span.RecordError. It wasn't pretty.
docs.sentry.io/platforms/go...
docs.sentry.io/platforms/go...
Inside BeforeSend, we manually parsed the sentry event & called otel's span.RecordError. It wasn't pretty.
docs.sentry.io/platforms/go...
docs.sentry.io/platforms/go...
Filtering | Sentry for Go
Learn more about how to configure your SDK to filter events reported to Sentry.
docs.sentry.io
December 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
AFAIK there's no drop-in replacement. We did it by intercepting in the SDK's BeforeSend and passing the ctx via event hints.
Inside BeforeSend, we manually parsed the sentry event & called otel's span.RecordError. It wasn't pretty.
docs.sentry.io/platforms/go...
docs.sentry.io/platforms/go...
Inside BeforeSend, we manually parsed the sentry event & called otel's span.RecordError. It wasn't pretty.
docs.sentry.io/platforms/go...
docs.sentry.io/platforms/go...
I have thoughts here that need a blog post :)
I don't think otel's ideas are incompatible with the frontend or that it has to be as big as it is. OTel hasn't moved fast enough here.
There is a new SIG working on this though, so maybe!
I don't think otel's ideas are incompatible with the frontend or that it has to be as big as it is. OTel hasn't moved fast enough here.
There is a new SIG working on this though, so maybe!
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I have thoughts here that need a blog post :)
I don't think otel's ideas are incompatible with the frontend or that it has to be as big as it is. OTel hasn't moved fast enough here.
There is a new SIG working on this though, so maybe!
I don't think otel's ideas are incompatible with the frontend or that it has to be as big as it is. OTel hasn't moved fast enough here.
There is a new SIG working on this though, so maybe!
hey ya it's me imoen. my 'otel's as clean as an elven arse.
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
hey ya it's me imoen. my 'otel's as clean as an elven arse.
📰 What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?
💬 Mixed feelings: OTEL's standards are great but vendors complicate things. Overall, positive feedback on the article! 👍✨
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038570
💬 Mixed feelings: OTEL's standards are great but vendors complicate things. Overall, positive feedback on the article! 👍✨
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038570
August 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📰 What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?
💬 Mixed feelings: OTEL's standards are great but vendors complicate things. Overall, positive feedback on the article! 👍✨
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038570
💬 Mixed feelings: OTEL's standards are great but vendors complicate things. Overall, positive feedback on the article! 👍✨
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038570
"Moy 'otel's as clean as an elven arse"
-Winthrop, Friendly Arm Inn, Sword Coast, Faerûn
-Winthrop, Friendly Arm Inn, Sword Coast, Faerûn
July 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"Moy 'otel's as clean as an elven arse"
-Winthrop, Friendly Arm Inn, Sword Coast, Faerûn
-Winthrop, Friendly Arm Inn, Sword Coast, Faerûn
🔍 Join Jonathan Perry at #DevOpsCon New York. Don’t miss this deep dive into OTel’s architecture and its power for modern infrastructure. ⚙️
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#Observability #eBPF #OpenTelemetry #DevOps
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#Observability #eBPF #OpenTelemetry #DevOps
June 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🔍 Join Jonathan Perry at #DevOpsCon New York. Don’t miss this deep dive into OTel’s architecture and its power for modern infrastructure. ⚙️
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/ocrxkktdjf
#Observability #eBPF #OpenTelemetry #DevOps
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/ocrxkktdjf
#Observability #eBPF #OpenTelemetry #DevOps
OTel's 'DIY' nature means users need expertise to set up collectors, exporters, and backend storage. Best practices involve thorough testing of pipelines and robust error handling in instrumentation code to mitigate implementation challenges. #cicd 6/6
June 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
OTel's 'DIY' nature means users need expertise to set up collectors, exporters, and backend storage. Best practices involve thorough testing of pipelines and robust error handling in instrumentation code to mitigate implementation challenges. #cicd 6/6
Overview: HN discussed using OpenTelemetry (OTel) for CI/CD observability, especially for complex/long-running processes. Key areas: OTel's suitability, comparing it with tools like CloudWatch/Sentry, and tackling implementation hurdles at scale. #observability 1/6
June 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Overview: HN discussed using OpenTelemetry (OTel) for CI/CD observability, especially for complex/long-running processes. Key areas: OTel's suitability, comparing it with tools like CloudWatch/Sentry, and tackling implementation hurdles at scale. #observability 1/6
It's not great that Otel's API has also chosen to present these Reverential Pillars as distinct, rather than, say, hide the projection of events to these formats in the exporter and reader components.
March 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It's not great that Otel's API has also chosen to present these Reverential Pillars as distinct, rather than, say, hide the projection of events to these formats in the exporter and reader components.
As I've spent a bunch of time staring at #OTel Rust PRs, I thought i'd write a thing about OTel's notion of Context - what it is, and how it flows through services.
It's a core abstraction of OTel and an interesting thing to learn about if you're into APM!
blog.scottgerring.com/posts/contex...
It's a core abstraction of OTel and an interesting thing to learn about if you're into APM!
blog.scottgerring.com/posts/contex...
March 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
As I've spent a bunch of time staring at #OTel Rust PRs, I thought i'd write a thing about OTel's notion of Context - what it is, and how it flows through services.
It's a core abstraction of OTel and an interesting thing to learn about if you're into APM!
blog.scottgerring.com/posts/contex...
It's a core abstraction of OTel and an interesting thing to learn about if you're into APM!
blog.scottgerring.com/posts/contex...
Any of my followers have any experience with and/or opinions on OTel'S Android SDK?
March 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Any of my followers have any experience with and/or opinions on OTel'S Android SDK?
hehe indeed, and this is from a former Java dev. I have been bitten by having to maintain some of those abstractions in the past. So for internal codebases I much rather expose native APIs (those decoupled from impl like OTel's) while providing out of the box DI and opinionated SDK config.
February 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
hehe indeed, and this is from a former Java dev. I have been bitten by having to maintain some of those abstractions in the past. So for internal codebases I much rather expose native APIs (those decoupled from impl like OTel's) while providing out of the box DI and opinionated SDK config.
OTel's docs are so relentlessly bad (impenetrable specs and oversimplistic examples + out of date API docs) that I had to use ChatGPT to understand how to use it. And, it's answers were mostly correct and super helpful. I would be at a standstill without it.
February 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
OTel's docs are so relentlessly bad (impenetrable specs and oversimplistic examples + out of date API docs) that I had to use ChatGPT to understand how to use it. And, it's answers were mostly correct and super helpful. I would be at a standstill without it.
Great seeing how the #OpenTelemetry project brings together competitors in fruitful collaboration to create standards:
Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on #GoLang Compile-Time Instrumentation
Check out OTel's new Special Interest Group. Way to go 👏
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/go-c…
Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on #GoLang Compile-Time Instrumentation
Check out OTel's new Special Interest Group. Way to go 👏
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/go-c…
January 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Great seeing how the #OpenTelemetry project brings together competitors in fruitful collaboration to create standards:
Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on #GoLang Compile-Time Instrumentation
Check out OTel's new Special Interest Group. Way to go 👏
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/go-c…
Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on #GoLang Compile-Time Instrumentation
Check out OTel's new Special Interest Group. Way to go 👏
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/go-c…
📰 I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
💬 Otel's confusion gets a round of sighs 😩; users prefer better tracing options like Kamon. Doc woes abound!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655102
💬 Otel's confusion gets a round of sighs 😩; users prefer better tracing options like Kamon. Doc woes abound!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655102
January 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
📰 I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
💬 Otel's confusion gets a round of sighs 😩; users prefer better tracing options like Kamon. Doc woes abound!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655102
💬 Otel's confusion gets a round of sighs 😩; users prefer better tracing options like Kamon. Doc woes abound!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655102
I haven't played the original Baldur's Gate since its release, but by God, a line from one of the first NPCs has lived rent-free in my head for over 20 years.
"My 'otel's as clean as an elven arse!"
Why? Who knows. Do I say it at random under my breath like Winthrop himself has possessed me? Yes.
"My 'otel's as clean as an elven arse!"
Why? Who knows. Do I say it at random under my breath like Winthrop himself has possessed me? Yes.
December 25, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I haven't played the original Baldur's Gate since its release, but by God, a line from one of the first NPCs has lived rent-free in my head for over 20 years.
"My 'otel's as clean as an elven arse!"
Why? Who knows. Do I say it at random under my breath like Winthrop himself has possessed me? Yes.
"My 'otel's as clean as an elven arse!"
Why? Who knows. Do I say it at random under my breath like Winthrop himself has possessed me? Yes.
my 'otel's as clean as an elven arse!
December 14, 2024 at 5:54 AM
my 'otel's as clean as an elven arse!
my 'otel's as clean as an elven arse
December 12, 2024 at 4:29 AM
my 'otel's as clean as an elven arse
🎉 Introducing the #OpenTelemetry Report. This new report presents insights around #OTel's rapid growth, central value, instrumentation, community engagement, and developer traction.
Take a look (no form required!): https://grafana.com/opentelemetry-report
See a few charts and findings in 🧵.
Take a look (no form required!): https://grafana.com/opentelemetry-report
See a few charts and findings in 🧵.
December 9, 2024 at 6:36 PM
🎉 Introducing the #OpenTelemetry Report. This new report presents insights around #OTel's rapid growth, central value, instrumentation, community engagement, and developer traction.
Take a look (no form required!): https://grafana.com/opentelemetry-report
See a few charts and findings in 🧵.
Take a look (no form required!): https://grafana.com/opentelemetry-report
See a few charts and findings in 🧵.
Thoughts on frontend Observability and when will mobile be part of otel’s roadmap. Not many vendors are thinking about both frontend and backend and many companies would like a one stop shop for both. Can otel solve this problem?
December 3, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Thoughts on frontend Observability and when will mobile be part of otel’s roadmap. Not many vendors are thinking about both frontend and backend and many companies would like a one stop shop for both. Can otel solve this problem?
Years of implementation-bound clients have created this (well founded) fear of scattering dependencies across your codebase on something of which you're not fully in control. Fair enough. But if you look into OTel's client design principles you'll see the benefits of embracing direct API deps.
October 26, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Years of implementation-bound clients have created this (well founded) fear of scattering dependencies across your codebase on something of which you're not fully in control. Fair enough. But if you look into OTel's client design principles you'll see the benefits of embracing direct API deps.
[20 years after the last computer has exploded back into sand in the post apocalypse] My 'otel's as clean as an elven arse.
March 6, 2024 at 7:04 AM
[20 years after the last computer has exploded back into sand in the post apocalypse] My 'otel's as clean as an elven arse.
this skeet bought to you by otel's inability to not fucking kill your services in 2023 because you updated one of your dependencies
November 27, 2023 at 7:26 PM
this skeet bought to you by otel's inability to not fucking kill your services in 2023 because you updated one of your dependencies