OpenTelemetry for Node.js

Overview

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the standard for distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. Instrument your Node.js services once, and send telemetry to any backend (Jaeger, Grafana Tempo, Datadog, Honeycomb). Auto-instrumentation captures HTTP, database, and gRPC calls without code changes.

Instructions

Step 1: Auto-Instrumentation

npm install @opentelemetry/sdk-node @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node \
  @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http @opentelemetry/exporter-metrics-otlp-http