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Question1 answer· Selected answer3,400 followingPosted 01 May 2022, 11:01 UTC74.6K views2,403 votes

What should I check first when OpenTelemetry fails?

A failure needs to be narrowed down before settings are changed or operations retried. Which evidence best separates application errors from environment and dependency problems?

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Question1 answer· Selected answer3,400 followingPosted 01 May 2022, 11:01 UTC74.6K views2,403 votes

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What should I check first when OpenTelemetry fails?

A failure needs to be narrowed down before settings are changed or operations retried. Which evidence best separates application errors from environment and dependency problems?

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Question1 answer1 comment4,357 followingPosted 10 Nov 2021, 19:19 UTC59.8K views3,302 votes

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Should OpenTelemetry expose a dedicated API for configuring per-span timeouts instead of relying only on context propagation?

Determine whether OpenTelemetry should provide a dedicated API for configuring timeouts on individual spans, rather than relying exclusively on context‑propagated deadlines. The specification leaves the exact moment a span is considered “ended” versus “aborted” to each SDK implementation, leading to differences in recorded duration and attributes after a can

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