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Unify OpenTelemetry and Datadog with the Datadog Distribution of the OTel Collector

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Date Published
Author
Lutao Xie, Evan Pandya
Word Count
1,199
Company Posts That Month
31
Language
English
Hacker News Points
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Summary

The OpenTelemetry Collector (OTel Collector) is an open-source observability framework that provides a standardized approach to collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data across distributed systems. The Datadog Distribution of the OTel Collector (DDOT Collector) enables users to adopt OTel flexibility while taking full advantage of Datadog's advanced features such as Live Container Monitoring, Network Monitoring, eBPF-based Universal Service Monitoring and Cloud Security Management Threats. With DDOT Collector, teams can extend the OTel Collector's feature set with broader and deeper observability, simplify OTel Collector management at scale with Fleet Automation, confidently accelerate OTel adoption with enterprise-grade reliability, security, and support, and unify their OpenTelemetry and Datadog experience today.

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