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W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group

by jbaviat on 11/12/19, 10:33 PM with 21 comments

  • by tylerchr on 11/13/19, 1:06 AM

    I have been watching this group since its inception, waiting for something that I can treat as a standard.

    They’re trying—and I am rooting for them—but from the outside it seems piecemeal and scattered, like a side project that is nobody’s real priority. Meanwhile, other initiatives have so much movement as to be unfollowable: Zipkin! No, Jaeger! No, OpenTracing! No, OpenCensus! No, OpenTelemetry!

    I am beginning to doubt that we will ever have a standard for distributed tracing.

  • by caniszczyk on 11/12/19, 11:29 PM

  • by tedsuo on 11/13/19, 6:03 AM

    Btw, if you are interested in distributed tracing, including the W3C and opentelemetry, we blog a weekly roundup about it here: https://lightstep.com/blog/category/distributed-tracing/

  • by mmclean on 11/13/19, 4:31 AM

    FYI for all, the W3C TraceContext specification will become a Proposed Recommendation later this week. I'm one of the co-chairs of the group and am happy to answer questions about our W3C work or OpenTelemetry.

  • by threeseed on 11/13/19, 3:31 AM

    Disappointing to see that Amazon is absent from this group.

  • by sciurus on 11/13/19, 12:05 AM

    How does this relate to OpenTelemetry?

  • by toomim on 11/12/19, 11:24 PM

  • by equalunique on 11/13/19, 5:46 AM

    Does this mean I should throw out my OpenTracing book (which I haven't started reading yet)?