Documentation | OpenTelemetry

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 90 observability vendors, integrated by many libraries, services, and apps, and adopted by numerous end users.
A brief explanation of what OpenTelemetry is and isn’t.
Get started with OpenTelemetry based on your role.
Key concepts in OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry code instrumentation is supported for many popular programming languages
Hardware & software platforms and environments supporting OpenTelemetry
Vendor-agnostic way to receive, process and export telemetry data.
Blueprints and sample architectures for best practices when adopting and implementing OpenTelemetry in common environments
Learn how to integrate OpenTelemetry with other observability technologies
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