Observability Primer
Before digging into OpenTelemetry, it is important to understand some core concepts first.
Concepts
What is OpenTelemetry, what does it provide and what does it support?
The concepts section helps you learn more about the data sources and components of the OpenTelemetry project in order to obtain a deeper understanding of how OpenTelemetry works.
What is OpenTelemetry?
Background information on OpenTelemetry
Signals
Categories of telemetry supported by OpenTelemetry
Components
The main components that make up OpenTelemetry
Instrumenting
How OpenTelemetry facilitates automatic and manual instrumentation of applications
Instrumenting libraries
Learn how to add native instrumentation to your library
Data Collection
The OpenTelemetry project facilitates the collection of telemetry data via the OpenTelemetry Collector
Distributions
A distribution, not to be confused with a fork, is customized version of an OpenTelemetry component.
Glossary
Terminology you may or may not be familiar with used by the OpenTelemetry project
Last modified June 8, 2022: Some fixes for concept pages (#1429) (261eb3c)