OpenTelemetry
Adopt
Foundation
CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), Linux Foundation
Since 2019
Judgement: Adopt
Vendor-neutral observability standard.
Vendor-neutral framework for collecting traces, metrics, and logs from distributed systems. The result of merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus.
In a data mesh context, OpenTelemetry is the natural choice for instrumenting pipelines and platform services so a federated governance team can correlate behaviour across domains.
At a glance
- Category
- Observability
- Governance
- CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), Linux Foundation
- Status
- Stable; widely adopted across cloud-native stacks
- First released
- 2019
Links
Related standards
Other standards in Observability.
- OORS — Open Observability Results Standard
See OpenTelemetry in context
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