Smells Like Clean Telemetry: Stop the Noise, Create Better Spans - Juliano Costa

This talk covers best practices for customizing application instrumentation using OpenTelemetry. The speaker, Juliano Costa, discusses the challenges of adding custom spans and attributes to traces that flow into observability backends. He explores the right balance in instrumentation, addressing common questions such as whether to create spans for every method and what attributes to include. Attendees will gain insights on optimizing telemetry for usability, cost efficiency, and performance, equipping them with strategies to avoid mistakes and enhance their instrumentation approach. Juliano is a Developer Advocate at Datadog and a contributor to the OpenTelemetry project.