Microservices Observability with OpenTelemetry & Jaeger (Full Setup)

🚀 In this video, you’ll learn Microservices Observability using OpenTelemetry with a complete Jaeger demo step by step. If you're building microservices, debugging issues across services can be painful. That’s where observability comes in! In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to trace requests across services using OpenTelemetry and visualize them using Jaeger. 🔍 What you’ll learn: ✔ What is Microservices Observability ✔ Logs vs Metrics vs Traces explained ✔ What is OpenTelemetry and why it matters ✔ How distributed tracing works ✔ Hands-on setup with Jaeger ✔ Debugging microservices using traces ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 – Introduction 00:45 – What is Microservices Observability? 01:30 – Why Observability 04:30 – Problems Without Observability 06:00 – Introduction to OpenTelemetry 08:15 – How Distributed Tracing Works 10:30 – What is Jaeger? 12:00 – Project Setup & Architecture 16:20 – Instrumenting Services with OpenTelemetry 20:10 – Sending Traces to Jaeger 22:30 – Visualizing Traces in Jaeger UI 🛠 Tech Covered: OpenTelemetry Jaeger Microservices Architecture Distributed Tracing AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, etc. – if used) 🎯 Who is this for? Backend Developers DevOps Engineers System Design Learners Anyone working with Microservices