Monitoring application performance with OpenTelemetry

When response times spike or a request fails deep in a distributed system, guessing is expensive. OpenTelemetry gives you a vendor-neutral way to collect traces, metrics, and logs so you can see where time is spent and what broke. &#xA; In this post, we’ll wire OpenTelemetry into a Java application: dependencies, manual SDK setup, wrapping work in spans, and exporting data so bottlenecks show up…