Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior. OpenTelemetry is generally …

Aug 29, 2025 · OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel, is a vendor-neutral open source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data …

Jun 24, 2025 · In the context of software, this means being able to understand the internal state of a system by examining its telemetry data, which includes traces, metrics, and logs.

The collector will allow to enrich and transform collected telemetry (e.g. add additional attributes or scrub personal information). The OpenTelemetry collector has two primary modes of …

May 28, 2024 · OpenTelemetry is the mechanism by which application code is instrumented to help make a system observable. Reliability and metrics Telemetry refers to data emitted from …

Jun 3, 2024 · Glossary Definitions and conventions for telemetry terms as used in OpenTelemetry.

Feb 6, 2025 · Your goal is to get telemetry out of them without touching their code. You want to collect traces, metrics, and logs from several services and send them off to your observability …

Dec 13, 2025 · The OpenTelemetry Collector receives traces, metrics, and logs, processes the telemetry, and exports it to a wide variety of observability backends using its components.

Jun 11, 2025 · API references Special Interest Groups (SIGs) implementing the OpenTelemetry API and SDK in a specific language also publish API references for developers. The following …

Feb 14, 2025 · Since OpenTelemetry has a variety of auto-instrumentations, try how your instrumentation interacts with other telemetry: incoming requests, outgoing requests, logs, and …