Posts about OpenTelemetry

VS HTTP files break OpenTelemetry tracing

January 31st 2025 OpenTelemetry Visual Studio

As I was preparing a sample ASP.NET Core Web API project to test the Grafana OpenTelemetry Docker image with, tracing for some reason didn't work for me. It took me a while to realize that the problem wasn't in the sample project or the Grafana container. The .http files in Visual Studio were at fault.

OpenTelemetry collection during development

January 24th 2025 OpenTelemetry Grafana

OpenTelemetry is a standard for collecting all types of observability data: logging, tracing and metrics. There is an increasing number of tools that can collect OpenTelemetry data emitted from applications, but not all of them are easy and convenient to set up locally for use during development.