Use the OpenTelemetry Collector and visualize your data

The blog post discusses the OpenTelemetry Collector, a versatile tool for managing telemetry data pipelines, highlighting its ability to aggregate, process, and export data from various sources like Prometheus, Jaeger, Kafka, and Zipkin to a backend observability platform such as New Relic. It explains how the Collector can be deployed as an agent on hosts to gather telemetry data, enrich it with host metadata, and forward it to a gateway cluster for further processing. The article includes demonstrations of setting up the Collector with Docker and shows how to instrument Java applications using OpenTelemetry, adhering to semantic conventions for consistent data output. The series aims to demystify OpenTelemetry by offering a comprehensive guide from foundational concepts to practical implementation, ultimately encouraging users to leverage OpenTelemetry's capabilities for enhanced observability across diverse software environments.