A Practical Standard for Modern Observability
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As systems sprawl across microservices, clouds, and teams, “more dashboards” isn’t the answer.
OpenTelemetry (OTel) gives you a common, vendor-neutral way to instrument software once and analyze anywhere. With a flexible Collector pipeline and growing support beyond traces, metrics, and logs, OTel is quickly becoming the baseline for reliable, portable observability.
In this month’s newsletter, we explore these ideas in more detail.
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By Open Telemetry
This is a brief overview of what OpenTelemetry (OTel) is. It also includes a great 9-minute overview video.
In essence, OTel is an observability framework and toolkit designed to facilitate the generation, export, and collection of telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.
OTel is open source, as well as vendor- and tool-agnostic. It can be used with a broad variety of observability backends, including open source tools like Jaeger and Prometheus, as well as commercial offerings.
The backend (storage) and the frontend (visualization) of telemetry data are intentionally left to other tools.
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By Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The “Fundamentals of OpenTelemetry” is a CNCF-hosted webinar recorded on December 4, 2020, and presented by Ted Young, the Director of Developer Education at Lightstep CNCF.
The 1-hour session provides a clear introduction to OpenTelemetry—covering its overarching architecture, the core components (like APIs, SDKs, and the Collector), and key concepts that distinguish it from traditional logging systems. It also includes multi-language API usage demonstrations and guidance on effectively rolling out OpenTelemetry across service deployments
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| OpenTelemetry Collector: A Complete Guide (2025)
By SigNoz
The OpenTelemetry Collector is a stand-alone service that acts as a powerful, vendor-neutral pipeline for your telemetry data. It can receive, process, and export logs, metrics, and traces, giving you full control over your observability data before it reaches a backend.
This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the OpenTelemetry Collector, its architecture, deployment patterns, and how to configure it for production use.
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By Ted Young
OpenTelemetry is a revolution in observability data. Instead of running multiple uncoordinated pipelines, OpenTelemetry provides users with a single integrated stream of data, providing multiple sources of high-quality telemetry data: tracing, metrics, logs, RUM, eBPF, and more.
This practical guide shows you how to set up, operate, and troubleshoot the OpenTelemetry observability system.
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