OpenTelemetry
opentelemetry.ioThe open standard for telemetry
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About
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.
Problem
Developers need a vendor-neutral, standardized way to instrument applications and collect observability data without being locked into a specific backend.
For
software developers and platform engineers building cloud-native applications
How it works
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.
Business model
open-source
Status
launched