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What is Telemetry Data?

Telemetry is an automated process used to collect measurements and other types of data remotely. The data is sent between devices and monitored for analysis to improve device performance.

In other cases, telemetry refers to the data collected by tech companies on user activity, tracking things like usage, uptime, crashes, software installed, and more.

What is OpenTelemetry?

OpenTelemetry (also known as OTel) is an open-source Observability (= the ability to understand an application’s behavior and performance based only on its telemetry) framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics and logs.

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