Effective observability requires high-quality telemetry

OpenTelemetry makes robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software.

OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.



Welcome new OpenTelemetry governance committee members

Sergey Kanzhelev

October 29, 2019

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For Developers

  • Introduction to Distributed Tracing and Metrics
  • Installing the OpenTelemetry SDK
  • Migrating from OpenTracing or OpenCensus
  • Explore instrumentation plugins

For Operators

  • Introduction to the OpenTelemetry Collector
  • Explore automatic instrumentation options
  • Configuring OpenTelemetry exporters
  • Interpreting trace data

OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project