Comment by demurgos

Comment by demurgos a day ago

2 replies

Why are you accusing me of posting an LLM reply?!

I just shared that I enjoyed using and contributing to OpenTelemetry. I never used an LLM. Do I really need to prove that I'm human?

- a couple PRs I posted to the Rust impl: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust/pulls?q... I also participate to issue discussions in this repo and others.

- OpenTelemetry tracer config in the web game platform I'm working on: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/eternaltwin/-/blob/main/crate...

- A somewhat cool thing: an OpenTelemetry proxy impl handling authentication of traces: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/eternaltwin/-/blob/main/crate...

- Node usage: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/labrute/labrute-react/-/blob/...

- Java usage: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/dinoparc/dinoparc/-/merge_req...

- PHP usage: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/mush/mush/-/merge_requests/20...

This is all 100% handcrafted, as all my messages ever.

Now that I proved that I actually used and contributed to OpenTelemetry, may I express that I like it overall but regret that the auto-instrumentation is brittle and hard to debug? I can expand on the particular issues I've hit or why I feel that it's still not mature enough.

kevindamm a day ago

FWIW, you gave that commenter way more than they deserved for the amount of effort they put into their comment. Also, I wouldn't have suspected your earlier comment was generated by an LLM.

  • demurgos 20 hours ago

    Thanks, I was a bit worried that maybe the initial comment was not a good fit. I've read the article, but had more to say about OpenTelemetry rather than Grafana.

    We use Grafana at work, with their Tempo product for trace analysis. We generate traces using OpenTelemetry. Tempo helps with debugging and perf work, but for personal projects I prefer open source solutions. I've used Uptrace, OpenObserve and Jaeger as backends, but thanks to this thread I also discovered Perses. In general, I prefer HN discussions that are a bit broader than the article itself.