Disintegrated Telemetry - The Pains of Monitoring Asynchronous Workflows

Explore the challenges of monitoring asynchronous workflows in this 42-minute conference talk by Johannes Tax from Grafana Labs. Delve into the complexities of instrumenting and observing workflows where components communicate via messages or events, resulting in disintegrated telemetry pieces. Learn about the limitations of Distributed Tracing's two solution approaches: strong correlation via parent/child relationships and weak correlation via links. Gain valuable insights to help choose the most suitable solution for your specific scenario. Discover ongoing standardization efforts in the field, including W3C context propagation drafts for messaging protocols and the messaging semantic conventions developed by the OpenTelemetry messaging workgroup. This talk provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of monitoring asynchronous workflows and offers a glimpse into future developments in this critical area of cloud native computing.