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OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel for short, is a vendor-neutral open-source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, logs. As an industry-standard it is natively supported by a number of vendors.

OpenTelemetry Reference Architecture

For an in-depth guide on OpenTelemetry, including documentation and guides on language-specific instrumentation or the Collector, please follow the links in the navigation bar.


Concepts

What is OpenTelemetry, what does it provide and what does it support?

Instrumentation

OpenTelemetry code instrumentation is supported for many popular programming languages

Collector

Vendor-agnostic way to receive, process and export telemetry data.

OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes

An implementation of a Kubernetes Operator, that manages collectors and auto-instrumentation of the workload using OpenTelemetry instrumentation libraries.

Workshop

Resources to aid in running an OpenTelemetry workshop

Migration

How to migrate to OpenTelemetry

Reference

Reference material like the OpenTelemetry Specification

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements for sources for content on this site

Contribution guidelines

How to contribute to OpenTelemetry