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Wrapping Up

Congratulations! 🎉 You’ve completed the OpenTelemetry with Sentry workshop. You’ve learned how to configure OpenTelemetry to send traces and logs to Sentry, enable distributed tracing across your full stack, and use these tools to debug real-world issues.

What You’ve Accomplished

Throughout this workshop, you’ve built a complete observability solution for a full-stack e-commerce application:

🔧 OpenTelemetry Integration with Sentry

  • Backend Instrumentation: Configured OpenTelemetry SDK to send traces and logs to Sentry via OTLP
  • Frontend Integration: Set up Sentry SDK with trace propagation enabled
  • Distributed Tracing: Connected frontend and backend traces using the traceparent header
  • Auto-Instrumentation: Leveraged automatic instrumentation for HTTP, databases, and caching

📊 Understanding Distributed Tracing

  • Trace Anatomy: Learned about traces, transactions, and spans
  • Trace Propagation: Understood how traceparent, sentry-trace, and baggage headers work
  • W3C Standards: Explored industry standards for distributed tracing
  • Sentry’s Trace Explorer: Learned to navigate and search traces effectively

🐛 Real-World Debugging

  • Performance Investigation: Used waterfall views to identify bottlenecks
  • Error Debugging: Combined traces and logs to understand failures
  • Root Cause Analysis: Followed distributed traces to pinpoint issues
  • Pattern Recognition: Compared successful vs failed requests to find patterns

⚙️ Advanced Configuration

  • Direct vs Collector Mode: Understood when to use each approach
  • OTLP Protocol: Learned how OpenTelemetry data flows to Sentry
  • Troubleshooting: Developed skills to debug configuration issues
  • Best Practices: Learned production-ready patterns for observability

Beyond the Workshop

Now that you have the fundamentals, here are areas to explore:

📈 Sentry Features

Happy tracing! 🔍