What is OpenTelemetry?
A short explanation of what OpenTelemetry is, and is not.
Documentation
OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel for short, is a vendor-neutral open-source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, logs. As an industry-standard, it is natively supported by a number of vendors.
Getting Started
Get started with OpenTelemetry based on your role.
OpenTelemetry Concepts
Key concepts in OpenTelemetry
Instrumentation
OpenTelemetry code instrumentation is supported for many popular programming languages
Collector
Vendor-agnostic way to receive, process and export telemetry data.
OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes
An implementation of a Kubernetes Operator, that manages collectors and auto-instrumentation of the workload using OpenTelemetry instrumentation libraries.
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
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements for sources for content on this site
Contribution guidelines
How to contribute to OpenTelemetry
Last modified March 30, 2023: Docs flow fix for beginners, move "What is OpenTelemetry?" to top level (#2559) (146de68)