What's New in OTel? OTel Go Compile-time Instrumentation & eBPF!

Ever wish Go instrumentation just happened without you wiring up SDK calls everywhere? That's the idea behind otelc. It works at build time, quietly rewriting your code during the build to inject OpenTelemetry instrumentation, so there's no manual SDK work to do.

In this month's episode of What's New in OTel, we chat with Kemal Akkoyun, Maintainer of the OpenTelemetry Go compile-time instrumentation (otelc). Kemal, Staff Engineer at Datadog, will pop the hood and show us how it actually works, how you can start using it today, and how you can get involved. We'll cover what the project needs help with and how PRs and reviews work, so if you've been itching to contribute, this is your sign!

Additionally, Kemal will do a quick compare-and-contrast with OBI (OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation) and otelc. Both share the same goal: instrument your apps without touching their code, but they take very different routes. Join us to learn more!