5. OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is an open source project and unified standard for service instrumentation, or a way of measuring performance. Sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it replaces OpenTracing and OpenCensus. The goal is to standardize how you collect and send telemetry data to a backend platform. The OpenTelemetry project consists of specifications, application programming interfaces (APIs), libraries, and integrations, including software development kits (SDKs) for various languages like Java, Go, and Python. It also defines a centralized collector service that you can use for collecting telemetry data from your applications and services. It includes exporters to send that data to the observability platform that you choose.

• 5.1. Quick Start