Open Source Summit + ELC North America 2020

OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from application. You can analyze the traces and metrics using Prometheus, Jaeger and various other observability tools.

Open-Telemetry takes the best from the Open tracing and Open Census.Its a new, open distributed tracing standard for application. With the widespread use of Microservice architecture, it becomes very important to understand the role and importance of distributed tracing.

It allows developers, engineers to instrument their code, their components, their modules to leverage the Open Tracing which provides : Standardization of span management APIs, inter-process propagation APIs and active span management APIs.

It gives us the standards we need to make accurate, turnkey distributed tracing a reality across modern software systems, including OSS packages and other third-party code. It does this while allowing OpenTracing implementations to take control over both in-band and out-of-band encoding formats; this in turn gives the application owner the flexibility to switch (or add) tracing vendors with an O(1) declarative configuration change.