What is OpenTelemetry?
A short explanation of what OpenTelemetry is, and is not.
Documentation
OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel for short, is a vendor-neutral open source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, logs. As an industry-standard, it is supported by 40+ observability vendors, integrated by many libraries, services and apps and adopted by a number of end-users.
Getting Started
Get started with OpenTelemetry based on your role.
OpenTelemetry Concepts
Key concepts in OpenTelemetry
Instrumentation
OpenTelemetry code instrumentation is supported for many popular programming languages
Collector
Vendor-agnostic way to receive, process and export telemetry data.
OpenTelemetry with Kubernetes
Using OpenTelemetry with Kubernetes
Functions as a Service
OpenTelemetry supports various methods of monitoring Function-as-a-Service provided by different cloud vendors
Migration
How to migrate to OpenTelemetry
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements for sources for content on this site
Contribution guidelines
How to contribute to OpenTelemetry
Last modified November 5, 2023: [CI] Terminology fixes from patched terminology textlint rule (#3496) (e97f5220)