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What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?

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116 points ndhandala | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 12:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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psnehanshu ◴[31 Aug 25 12:01 UTC] No.45082515[source]▶
The amount of additional code that it needs is horrible. We will now have to spend more brain juice on telemetry when working on a feature.
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1. pm90 ◴[31 Aug 25 16:11 UTC] No.45084271[source]▶
There’s certainly some overhead, nothing is free. But the tradeoff is better insight into your system and better tools to validate issues when they arise. It can be very powerful in those scenarios.

Ive spent countless hours on issues where customers complain about performance or a bug and it just can’t be reproduced. Telemetry allows us to get more information to locate and fix these issues.