Open Source in Finance Forum New York 2024

As financial firms continue to adopt cloud at growing speed, observability has become increasingly critical to help detect and resolve issues and achieve system reliability. Generally, companies with large volumes of pre-existing code look to adopt an industry leading observability platform, which requires minimal effort for adoption, and provides proprietary agents with out-of-the-box instrumentation supporting a wide variety of technologies, infrastructure components, and frameworks. As technology evolves rapidly, observability platforms are challenged to support merging services, applications, and frameworks. During our session, we will discuss how OpenTelemetry (OTel), used in conjunction with other enterprise observability platforms, can complement observability platforms in providing support for newer technologies. Additionally, we will showcase how easy it can be to instrument an application with OTel by leveraging GenAI/ChatGPT, and debunk beliefs that OTel instrumentation requires significant developer overhead.