Becoming an otelhttp Code Owner (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OpenTelemetry Community Call #10)

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Becoming an otelhttp Code Owner (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OpenTelemetry Community Call #10)

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RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/grafana-friends-virtual-meetup-group/events/316611496/

We’re back with the new Grafana ❤️‍🔥OpenTelemetry Community Call!

In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we’re joined by Sonal Gaud, code owner of otelhttp in opentelemetry-go-contrib and part of the core Go contributor team.

We’ll trace her path from writing test-coverage PRs to owning the instrumentation library that most Go services use to get HTTP traces and metrics for free — and go deep on how otelhttp actually works under the hood: context propagation, metrics/attributes via the Labeler, route cardinality, and how the library evolves alongside HTTP semantic conventions.

We’ll also talk about what it’s like to review PRs and protect backward compatibility in a widely used contrib package, and where otelhttp is headed next.

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This event will be livestreamed on YouTube and published at the same link after the fact: https://www.youtube.com/live/s6pQ-Taj2u0?si=RKpSPQrlF9We5elN

Join the conversation, bring your questions, and learn how this project is evolving with contributions from across the community.

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