Intro to o11y Topic 12: Customizing the Telemetry in Honeycomb

Description:

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr explains how to add custom telemetry to Honeycomb. Jessica will cover how to find the code to change, how to add an attribute to a span, and how to name the attribute.

She uses the sample app Sequence of Numbers to walk through the process. If you would like to download the app and follow along, you can do so using the process from Intro to o11y Topic 3. If you need help connecting your app to Honeycomb, see Intro to o11y Topic 4.

By default, Sequence of Numbers uses only autoinstrumentation, open-source libraries from OpenTelemetry configured at startup.

Autoinstrumentation is a great starting place, but more powerful observability comes from adding the information specific to each application.