OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is an open standard for observability focused on instrumentation, generation, collection and exporting of metrics. It's currently in beta, and formed from a merging of p.r.comp.o11y.opentracing (Private) and p.r.comp.o11y.opencensus (Private).

Concepts

• Telemetry data is broken down into three key signal types:
  • Traces
  • Metrics
  • Logs
• Semantic conventions define the structure of events:
  • HTTP

Components

• The Specification comprises the data model, API and SDK.
• The Collector defines a vendor-agnostic means of receiving, processing and exporting data.
• Client libraries perform application instrumentation.
  • Some support automatic instrumentation
• Logging is in incubation.

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Children

1. Collector
2. Logs
3. Metrics
4. OTLP
5. SDK
6. Traces
7. Utilities

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Backlinks

• Honeycomb (public)
• 2022-02-13 (internal) (Private)
• 2022-02-18 (internal) (Private)
• 2022-02-21 (internal) (Private)
• 2022-05-26 (internal) (Private)