OpenTelemetry

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 category of a tech stack.

OpenTelemetry Pros & Cons

Pros of OpenTelemetry

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Cons of OpenTelemetry

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OpenTelemetry Integrations

LightStep, ODD Platform, Uptrace, SigNoz, Promscale and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with OpenTelemetry. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with OpenTelemetry.

OpenTelemetry Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to OpenTelemetry?

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.

Prometheus

Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.

OpenTelemetry Integrations

LightStep, ODD Platform, Uptrace, SigNoz, Promscale and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with OpenTelemetry. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with OpenTelemetry.