OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools. Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help you analyze your software’s performance …

Aug 29, 2025 · OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel, is a vendor-neutral open source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, …

Jun 24, 2025 · OpenTelemetry is used by a wide variety of libraries, services and apps that have OpenTelemetry integrated to provide observability by default. OpenTelemetry is supported by …

This document provides an overview of the OpenTelemetry project and defines important fundamental terms. Additional term definitions can be found in the glossary.

We emit logs, traces and metrics in a way that is compliant with OpenTelemetry data models, send the data through OpenTelemetry Collector, where it can be enriched and processed in a uniform manner.

Dec 16, 2025 · The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation of how to receive, process and export telemetry data. It removes the need to run, operate, and maintain multiple …

Jun 3, 2024 · Key concepts in OpenTelemetry This section covers data sources and key components of the OpenTelemetry project, which can help you understand how OpenTelemetry works.

May 28, 2024 · For more on metrics and how they relate to OpenTelemetry, see Metrics. SLI, or Service Level Indicator, represents a measurement of a service’s behavior. A good SLI measures your …

Dec 13, 2025 · The OpenTelemetry Collector receives traces, metrics, and logs, processes the telemetry, and exports it to a wide variety of observability backends using its components.

Oct 30, 2025 · This page will show you how to get started with OpenTelemetry in Python. You will learn how you can instrument a simple application automatically, in such a way that traces, metrics, and …