What is OpenTelemetry?

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OpenTelemetry is an observability framework and toolkit designed to facilitate the generation, export, collection of telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.

OpenTelemetry is not an observability backend itself. --- OpenTelemetry

What is OTel? | OTel for Beginners

Benefits of using OTel

Users

• No vendor lock in
• Learn a single set of APls and conventions
• Send the data to any observability backend vendor that adopts this standard

Vendors

• Customers may prefer to adopt open standards rather than closed and proprietary solutions.
• Reduce support and implementation costs
• Vendors can focus on their differentiating factors