Most Java developers who come from a C/C++ background have probably at one time wished for a Java equivalent of sizeof(). Although Java lacks a true sizeof() equivalent, the Instrumentation interface ...

There is some overlap -- but they're fundamentally different. Java instrumentation will track each and every instance of a given metric. This can create performance issues. Java sampling involves ...

When you’re trying to analyze why a program failed, a very valuable piece of information is what the program was actually doing when it failed. In many cases, this can be determined with a stack trace ...

OpenTelemetry Java Agent Demo This Maven project demonstrates how to capture spans using the OpenTelemetry Java auto-instrumentation agent. The sample HttpClientDemo starts a tiny HTTP server that ...

Originally the thought was that this enabled property could be used by library and native instrumentation too, but I think those use cases are now covered by the new tracer and meter configs to enable ...