OpenTelemetry: Future-Proofing Your Instrumentation
Blog post from New Relic
OpenTelemetry, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, standardizes the collection and transmission of telemetry data, simplifying the choice for developers by merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus into a single open standard. This initiative offers a vendor-neutral path to capturing telemetry data across various languages and backends, enhancing observability with its APIs, SDKs, and components like Tracer and Meter pipelines, and a shared Context layer. OpenTelemetry's architecture includes a flexible and extensible Collector that facilitates exporting spans and metrics to numerous telemetry systems. The project aims to provide a consistent application performance monitoring experience by ensuring all instrumentation contains the same semantic information, thus freeing developers to focus on building reliable software solutions. Currently in beta, OpenTelemetry is supported by practical examples and documentation to help developers quickly integrate it into their applications.