CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

This session provides an in-depth dissection and live demonstration of OpenTelemetry’s build-time auto-instrumentation for Android. Class-loading in the Android runtime poses significant challenges to instrumentation engineers looking for attach or injection points. Fortunately, developers can now use off-the-shelf OpenTelemetry tools to instrument their applications without the need to manually instrument or even alter their application code. We will cover the benefits of front-loading bytecode weaving to build time, the tools used by OpenTelemetry to accomplish this, and the types of rich client-side telemetry created through this approach.