7–8 Oct 2025
Quality Hotel Globe
Europe/Stockholm timezone

OpenTelemetry Tracing for your DNS

8 Oct 2025, 12:15
15m
Stjärnrummet (Quality Hotel Globe)

Stjärnrummet

Quality Hotel Globe

Arenaslingan 7, 121 77 Johanneshov, Sweden
In-Person Standard Presentation Public Workshop OARC 45 Day 2

Speaker

Peter van Dijk (PowerDNS)

Description

Correlation of performance data for specific queries coming from several DNS servers can be hard. This talk discusses how we use tracing data in the vendor agnostic OpenTelemetry Trace format to provide trace information in a standard form. We show a visual representation of example traces and discuss a proposed EDNS0 extension to pass trace IDs between so correlation of trace data coming from multiple (chained) sources becomes easy and unambiguous.

Summary

Rough expected slidedeck content:
* short intro to OT
* some juicy screenshots of DNS resolution traces (like in https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/15668 )
* a detailed view on some trace details
* protocol description for interoperability between different pieces of DNS software

Talk duration 20 Minutes (+5 for Q&A)

Primary authors

Otto Moerbeek (PowerDNS/Open-XChange) Peter van Dijk (PowerDNS)

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