Virtual Only - OpenTelemetry Errors - September 18th

We are excited to announce the September/2024 edition of the Cloud Native Linz meetup!

Given the current circumstances with severe weather conditions and flooding, we've decided to switch to a fully remote setup for our meetup on Wednesday, September 18. 

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Adriana Villela

Adriana Villela is a Sr. Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Before her current role, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale enterprises, as an individual contributor and leader, including Bank of Montreal, Ceridian, and Accenture. Adriana is a blogger, host of the Geeking Out Podcast, CNCF Ambassador, and HashiCorp Ambassador.

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Reese Lee

Reese Lee is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic, where she is focused on enabling customers and colleagues on OSS via workshops, blog posts, and documentation. She enjoys figuring out solutions to technical problems, learning about interesting user stories and use cases, and creating a productive environment for people to learn new technologies. She co-leads the OpenTelemetry End User Working Group, and has delivered several talks on various aspects of OpenTelemetry.

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Adriana Villela & Reese Lee - Dude, Where’s My Error? How OpenTelemetry Records Errors, and Why It Does It Like That

When an app crashes or throws an exception, these errors are not just useful, but vital, to record. However: * How an error is visualized in a backend may not be where you think it’ll be, or how you expect it to look. * Only looking at errors could mean you’re missing out on understanding your system holistically, including other failures that may be causing user dissatisfaction. In this session, Adriana & Reese will examine errors using OpenTelemetry (OTel). They will discuss how OTel records errors, how to enhance spans with metadata to streamline troubleshooting, and explore the distinction between errors and exceptions. They'll also look at how the same error is visualized in different backends, and teach about the different span kinds and how they affect error reporting. Attendees will be empowered to navigate the complexities of error handling in their software applications by leveraging OTel’s capabilities to better understand how things are working (or not) in their apps.

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ONLINE ONLY

If you would like to keep the discussion live after the event, join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/MgM5BGV