WebAssembly is the next platform for computing, and this time, we can have observability from day one. In building distributed WebAssembly on top of wasmCloud, we built in the full OpenTelemetry ("OTEL") trifecta: traces, metrics and logs.
**Along the way we found a new way to achieve the holy grail of observability — free application & backing service instrumentation.**
This talk will cover how we implemented OTEL in wasmCloud and the benefits and challenges we faced. In a live demo, you will learn how you can trace globally distributed applications written in different programming languages and connected to a variety of backend services.
