What is OpenTelemetry?
A short explanation of what OpenTelemetry is and isn’t.
Documentation
OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel, is a vendor-neutral open source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.
As an industry-standard, OpenTelemetry is supported by more than 40 observability vendors, integrated by many libraries, services, and apps, and adopted by numerous end users.
Getting Started
Get started with OpenTelemetry based on your role.
OpenTelemetry Concepts
Key concepts in OpenTelemetry
Language APIs & SDKs
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
Contributing
Learn how to contribute to OpenTelemetry documentation.