Explore distributed tracing and monitoring using OpenCensus in this comprehensive conference talk. Gain insights into observability for cloud services spanning multiple clouds and technological stacks. Learn about core concepts including tags, metrics, exporters, zPages, and trace context propagation. Discover how to implement open-source and vendor-agnostic client libraries for OpenCensus, and export telemetry to popular distributed tracing systems like Zipkin. Delve into software evolution, new architectures, and the challenges they present. Understand the importance of observability in cloud services and how OpenCensus addresses these needs. Examine the OpenCensus NuGet package, various tracing options, and terminology. Master the configuration of exporters and samplers, and learn to use the tracer effectively. Explore instrumentation with metrics, the OpenCensus service, traces, and sampling techniques. Investigate integrations, community resources, and the OpenCensus roadmap to enhance your distributed system monitoring capabilities. Read more