What is OpenTelemetry?
It provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.
OpenTelemetry is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Who uses OpenTelemetry?
Companies
34 companies reportedly use OpenTelemetry in their tech stacks, including deleokorea, Alibaba Travels, and Foretag.
Developers
98 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OpenTelemetry.
OpenTelemetry Integrations
LightStep, SigNoz, Flipt, ODD Platform, and OpenStatus are some of the popular tools that integrate with OpenTelemetry. Here's a list of all 16 tools that integrate with OpenTelemetry.
Pros of OpenTelemetry
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OpenTelemetry Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OpenTelemetry?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
Nagios
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.