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OpenTelemetry Moves Past the Three Pillars

This is an article from DZone's 2021 Application Performance Management Trend Report.

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Last summer, the OpenTelemetry project reached the incubation stage within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. At the same time, OpenTelemetry passed another mile marker: over 1,000 contributing developers representing over 200 different organizations. This includes significant investments from three major cloud providers (Google, Microsoft, and AWS), numerous observability providers (Lightstep, Splunk, Honeycomb, Dynatrace, New Relic, Red Hat, Data Dog, etc.), and large end-user companies (Shopify, Postmates, Zillow, Uber, Mailchimp, etc.). It is the second-largest project within the CNCF, after Kubernetes. 

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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.