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OpenTelemetry Specifications

OpenTelemetry Specifications: Documentation LLMS index: llms.txt 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.

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What is OpenTelemetry? A brief explanation of what OpenTelemetry is and isn't. LLMS index: llms.txt OpenTelemetry is: - An [observability][] framework and toolkit designed to facilitate the - [Generation][instr] - Export - Collection of [telemetry data][] such as [traces][], [metrics][], and [logs][]. - Open source , as well as vendor- and tool-agnostic , meaning that it can be used with a broad variety of observability backends, including open source tools like [Jaeger][] and [Prometheus][], as well as commercial offerings. OpenTelemetry is not an observability backend itself. A major goal of OpenTelemetry is to enable easy instrumentation of your applications and systems, regardless of the programming language, infrastructure, and runtime environments used. The backend (storage) and the frontend (visualization) of telemetry data are intentionally left to other tools. <div class="td-max-width-on-larger-screens" <div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;" <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iEEIabOha8U?autoplay=0&controls=1&end=0&loop=0&mute=0&start=0" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;" title="YouTube video" </iframe </div </div For more videos in this series and additional resources, see What next?

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