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Why Sumo Logic Embraced the OpenTelemetry Standard

The big news from Sumo Logic, coming out of at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam this week, is that the observability company is going all in on OpenTelemetry, according to Erez Barak, Sumo Logic’s vice president of product development for observability. OpenTelemetry Use Avoids Vendor Lock-in https://thenewstack.io/opentelemetry-is-transforming-it-departments-heres-how/ with observability platforms:https://thenewstack.io/opentelemetry-otel-is-key-to-avoiding-vendor-lock-in/, a senior telemetry engineer with Honeycomb.

The company also announced that its Sumo Logic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Collector now supports https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-for-windows/ platforms. Customers using Sumo Logic Distro for OpenTelemetry can gather logs, metrics, and traces from Windows operating systems, which can be configured utilizing the new onboarding workflows, the company stated in its announcement.

“Onboarding data and setting up data collection from various sources can be complex,” Sumo Logic stated.