OpenTelemetry makes robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software

OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process, and export telemetry data in a seamless way. In addition, it removes the need to run, operate, and maintain multiple agents/collectors in order to support open-source observability data formats (e.g. Jaeger, Prometheus, etc.) sending to multiple open-source or commercial back-ends.