OpenTracing and OpenCensus are merging into OpenTelemetry

I've used OpenTracing before with good results. Though at the time, 3rd party support (like DataDog etc.) was lacking, and we didn't really want to host our own Jaeger install.

I didn't know OpenCensus was a thing, but I hope this merger means that adoption spreads. A lot of cloud providers provide their own tracing, and it would be nice if they were all compatible.

This is great news! I do hope they had kept the Open Tracing name though, instead of introducing a 3rd name to the mix.

Hi all! Author here; happy to answer any questions about the OpenTelemetry merger.

I don’t see C++ support mentioned, any particular reason it is ignored?

It's getting started soon: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/master/comm...

We have a very performant prototype!

One usde case I am excited about: taking the OpenTelemetry C++ SDK, and binding it to the OpenTelemetry interfaces in other languages, such as Ruby and Python.

Some runtimes may see a performance boost by running the observability code independently from the GIL, GC, etc.

Might have been better to just stick with OpenCensus as the name and retire OpenTracing.