Connect Your App to Your Enterprise Traces

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Tutorial on connecting apps to enterprise traces with OpenTelemetry, directly useful for data engineering.

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Why It Matters

For platform engineers building cross-platform apps, this solves a critical blind spot in distributed tracing where native mobile/desktop clients disappear from the observability picture, enabling true end-to-end visibility across the entire request path.

Key Takeaways

Instrument native-compiled services at build time to preserve trace context across the full stack, ensuring mobile clients don't become blind spots in your enterprise observability.

Connect Your App to Your Enterprise Traces

Summary

Codename One's OpenTelemetry integration bridges the observability gap for native-compiled Java/Kotlin apps by embedding the tracer at build time, avoiding the loss of JVM instrumentation hooks. It propagates W3C trace headers from client apps through API gateways to backend services, unifying mobile/desktop traces with enterprise observability backends. The build-time opt-in (`cn1.otel.enabled` or `@OpenTelemetry` annotation) ensures tracing code is compiled into the binary, supporting both distributed traces and metrics without runtime surprises.

Author

Shai Almog