Company
Date Published
Author
Tomasz Rybczynski
Word count
614
Language
American English
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None

Summary

Dynatrace has introduced native support for OpenTelemetry logs, enabling organizations to collect all observability data on a single platform and achieve unified observability with other OpenTelemetry signals. This development builds on Dynatrace's existing support for traces and metrics via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), allowing users to leverage Grail and Dynatrace Query Language for actionable insights from log data. OpenTelemetry, backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), has become a popular open-source framework for cloud-native software, standardizing the instrumentation and export of telemetry data. With OpenTelemetry's logs API/SDK specification now stable, organizations can adopt a unified approach to observability, minimizing the need for separate instrumentation efforts. Dynatrace's support for OpenTelemetry logs provides a holistic view of system behavior and performance, integrating traces and logs for direct root-cause analysis. This advancement is especially beneficial for enterprises with diverse architectures, as it extends Dynatrace's coverage without the overhead of traditional log forwarding solutions. The support is available in Dynatrace version 1.270 and can be configured through the OpenTelemetry Logs Ingest API.