OpenTelemetry

Overview

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a vendor-neutral, open-source observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data — traces, metrics, and logs. It is an industry standard supported by 90+ observability vendors, integrated by many libraries/services/apps, and adopted by numerous end users.

OpenTelemetry was created as a merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus.

Key Principles

1. You own the data you generate — no vendor lock-in
2. Single set of APIs and conventions — learn once, use everywhere

Main Components