#opentelemetry react

The Talk discusses the difference between monitoring and observability, highlighting the focus of OpenTelemetry on generating and processing data. It explores the concept of traces and span IDs in distributed tracing and the experimental nature of OpenTelemetry in the browser. The Talk also touches on the complexities of React with server components and demonstrates how distributed tracing can connect traces for different services. The process of adding OpenTelemetry to Next.js and analyzing application and browser traces is explained, along with the importance of context propagation. The Talk concludes with insights on analyzing fetch calls, errors, and the storage limitations of traces.