The OpenTelemetry project is an open-source telemetry framework that aims to be robust, portable, and easy to implement across many languages. It provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from applications. The first beta release includes specifications and SDKs for instrumenting applications in Erlang, Go, Java, JavaScript, and Python. OpenTelemetry is designed to work with existing tools such as New Relic One, allowing users to discover latency within requests, identify bottlenecks and failures, and gain insights into their distributed systems. The project also includes a Java agent that can dynamically inject bytecode to capture telemetry from popular libraries and frameworks, providing an easy way to instrument third-party libraries without modifying code. With the first beta release, OpenTelemetry offers a robust solution for distributed tracing and observability, enabling developers to better understand the performance and behavior of their applications.