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OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel, is a vendor-neutral open source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.

As an industry-standard, OpenTelemetry is supported by more than 90 observability vendors, integrated by many libraries, services, and apps, and adopted by numerous end users.

👁 OpenTelemetry Reference Architecture

What is OpenTelemetry?

A brief explanation of what OpenTelemetry is and isn’t.

Getting Started

Get started with OpenTelemetry based on your role.

OpenTelemetry Concepts

Key concepts in OpenTelemetry

Language APIs & SDKs

OpenTelemetry code instrumentation is supported for many popular programming languages

Platforms and environments

Hardware & software platforms and environments supporting OpenTelemetry

Collector

Vendor-agnostic way to receive, process and export telemetry data.

Blueprints and reference implementations

Blueprints and sample architectures for best practices when adopting and implementing OpenTelemetry in common environments

Compatibility

Learn how to integrate OpenTelemetry with other observability technologies

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