Last week, the OpenTracing community invited me to their monthly Google Hangout meetup to give an informal talk on tracing and instrumentation in Apache Kudu.
While Kudu doesn’t currently support distributed tracing using OpenTracing, it does have quite a lot of other types of instrumentation, metrics, and diagnostics logging. The OpenTracing team was interested to hear about some of the approaches that Kudu has used, and so I gave a brief introduction to topics including: