What is OpenTelemetry?
It 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.
OpenTelemetry is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Who uses OpenTelemetry?
Companies
43 companies reportedly use OpenTelemetry in their tech stacks, including deleokorea, Alibaba Travels, and Foretag.
Developers
111 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OpenTelemetry.
OpenTelemetry Integrations
LightStep, SigNoz, Flipt, ODD Platform, and Baselime are some of the popular tools that integrate with OpenTelemetry. Here's a list of all 16 tools that integrate with OpenTelemetry.
Pros of OpenTelemetry
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OpenTelemetry Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OpenTelemetry?
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Sentry
Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
