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Splunk: OpenTelemetry and the Future of ObservabilityCategory: Software, Database, Data, Kubernetes, Infrastructure, yaml
We’ve all heard of the term “observability,” the capture and analysis of data that allows you to understand your complex applications and environments. OpenTelemetry, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project launched in 2019, is rapidly growing to become the most popular and supported way to capture performance telemetry from applications and infrastructure.
Typically, developers will use OpenTelemetry in an application by: The long-term goal of OpenTelemetry is for telemetry sources, the libraries, frameworks and other code that developers want to capture data from, to generate telemetry natively with the language-specific OpenTelemetry APIs.
In the short term, the OpenTelemetry project provides instrumentation that captures telemetry natively from these sources and translates it to the OpenTelemetry APIs.
Lastly, OpenTelemetry is supported by a massive, healthy, open source community and every part of it is under active development.
Typically, developers will use OpenTelemetry in an application by: The long-term goal of OpenTelemetry is for telemetry sources, the libraries, frameworks and other code that developers want to capture data from, to generate telemetry natively with the language-specific OpenTelemetry APIs.
In the short term, the OpenTelemetry project provides instrumentation that captures telemetry natively from these sources and translates it to the OpenTelemetry APIs.
Lastly, OpenTelemetry is supported by a massive, healthy, open source community and every part of it is under active development.
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