OpenTelemetry & Python: Manually set Span Status, Span Attributes and Span Events

Part 1 of this tutorial is here: • OpenTelemetry & Python...
Part 3 is here: • OpenTelemetry and Pyth...
In this video I'll explain the purpose of different parts of the span JSON output and add the Python code to manually set the span status, span attributes and add a span event.
Code samples: Code samples: github.com/aga...
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Timings:
00:00 Introduction & Part One Recap
00:20 Explanation of other fields in span JSON
00:26 trace id and span id
01:12 Why should you enrich spans anyway?
01:25 What is SpanKind?
02:04 What is Span Status?
02:30 Hands on: Setting Span Status manually in Python
03:14 What are Span Attributes?
03:51 Hands on: Setting Span attributes manually in Python
04:22 Hands on: Setting multiple span attributes using a dictionary
04:40 What are Span Events?
05:03 Hands on: Add span events
06:12 What is a Span Resource?
06:32 Hands on: Add a Span Resource
07:27 Final thoughts / warnings about span attributes
08:23 Outro

[@akshayawate7239]

Subscribed! Thanks for adding manual instrumentation.

[@sadiqkavungal990]

nice explanation, thank you.

[@agardnerit]

Glad it was helpful!

[@akshayawate7239]

Can you please add vid on otlp exporter, to send traces to jaeger ?

[@agardnerit]

Yup! That's the very next video in the series. Coming soon.
Part 3: Sending spans to Jaeger >> ua-cam.com/video/tnml6Zd58gs/v-deo.html