Observability

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

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