OpenTelemetry
The open standard for telemetry
OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for cloud-native software that provides a unified set of APIs, SDKs, libraries, agents, and collector services. It enables developers to instrument applications once and export distributed traces, metrics, and logs to any observability backend without vendor lock-in. The project is a CNCF graduated project, formed from the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus.
Applications are instrumented once using OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs, and telemetry data is collected and routed through the OpenTelemetry Collector to any compatible observability backend.
software developers and platform engineers building cloud-native applications
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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