What is OpenTelemetry?

OpenTelemetry is an open-source CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) project formed from the merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects. It provides a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs for capturing metrics, distributed traces and logs from applications. OpenTelemetry is expected to become the industry standard for pre-instrumenting libraries and frameworks to add out-of-the-box and vendor-neutral observability and enriching local monitoring data with custom instrumentation. While OpenTelemetry does not provide backend or analytics capabilities, it provides several integration points for observability platforms to ingest the collected data.

OpenTelemetry

Unify signals in one integrated platform, execute queries across metrics, traces, and logs, and enhance the value of OpenTelemetry data.

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Store traces, metrics, and logs in one place

Integrate metrics, logs, and traces in traditional and cloud-native environments
Maximize insights with automatic baselining and AI-powered anomaly detection
Consolidate observability solutions and cut costs
Unify analysis with correlated signals for services and workloads

Supercharge OpenTelemetry data

Profile CPU usage and garbage collection to pinpoint performance bottlenecks
Discover method hotspots with code-level insights
Enhance visibility through automatic topology detection of service dependencies
Incorporate Real User Monitoring for end-to-end UX tracking

Ingest data from anywhere

Ingest OpenTelemetry data using native OTLP, managed Dynatrace collectors, or automate collection with the Dynatrace OneAgent
Combine OpenTelemetry with Dynatrace PurePath for enhanced trace correlation
Apply Dynatrace OpenTelemetry solutions for serverless and Istio/Envoy monitoring

Execute massive queries at lightning speed

Ingest and retain huge data volumes without indexing hassles
Run lightning-fast queries across a unified data set with patented Grail technology
Safeguard data integrity with masking, parsing, and filtering at the edge

With [Dynatrace] OneAgent OpenTelemetry, tracing automatically gets ingested. This lets us diagnose problems that are not only in our application, but also with external integrations.

Justin Scherer Senior Software Engineer, Northwestern Mutual

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