Vendor-neutral standard for traces, metrics, and logs.
The vendor-neutral standard for distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. OpenTelemetry SDKs instrument your code once and export to any backend — Jaeger, Honeycomp, Datadog, you name it. The bootcamp teaches OTel as the default instrumentation layer for agent observability.
Yes. OpenTelemetry is open source and free to use under the Apache 2.0 license. It is a CNCF project; you may still pay for a backend that stores and visualises the data.
It exports via the OTLP protocol to many backends, including Jaeger, Prometheus, and most major commercial observability platforms, so you can switch backends without re-instrumenting.
Basic auto-instrumentation can be added quickly, but full manual instrumentation and Collector configuration take more effort. Familiarity with tracing concepts helps.
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Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system that scrapes metrics from your services on an interval, stores them as time-series data, and lets you query and alert on them with PromQL.
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