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OpenTelemetry

High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability

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OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools. Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help you analyze your software's performance and behavior.

OpenTelemetry is generally available across several languages and is suitable for production use.

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Create and collect telemetry from your services and software, then forward it to a variety of analysis tools.

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OpenTelemetry integrates with many popular libraries and frameworks, and supports code-based and zero-code instrumentation.

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100% free and open source, OpenTelemetry is adopted and supported by industry leaders in the observability space.

OpenTelemetry is a CNCF incubating project.
Formed through a merger of the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects.

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