Getting Started With OpenTelemetry

With the growing number of mass migrations to the cloud, OpenTelemetry solves new challenges by simplifying and reducing time spent on data collection through automation. OpenTelemetry is an open-source collection of tools, APIs, SDKs, and specifications with the purpose of standardizing how to model and collect telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been proven to enable effective observability and it aims to become a standard of observability implementation.

In this Refcard, we introduce core OpenTelemetry architecture components, key concepts and features, and how to set up for tracing and exporting telemetry data.