What is OpenTelemetry?
A brief explanation of what OpenTelemetry is and isn’t.
Documentation
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OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel, is a vendor-neutral open source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.
As an industry-standard, OpenTelemetry is supported by more than 40 observability vendors, integrated by many libraries, services, and apps, and adopted by numerous end users.
Getting Started
Get started with OpenTelemetry based on your role.
OpenTelemetry Concepts
Key concepts in OpenTelemetry
Language APIs & SDKs
OpenTelemetry code instrumentation is supported for many popular programming languages
Platforms and environments
Hardware & software platforms and environments supporting OpenTelemetry
Collector
Vendor-agnostic way to receive, process and export telemetry data.
Migration
How to migrate to OpenTelemetry
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