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.
Through metrics, logs, and traces, observability data gives us the information we need to inspect how our applications run and while using OpenTelemetry, observability becomes accessible to everyone.
With OpenTelemetry you can collect and export telemetry data to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior in XpoLog Platform and evaluate your production environment state without changing your code.
OpenTelemetry supports vendor-neutral APIs or vendor-agnostic, software development kits (SDKs) and other tools for collecting telemetry data.
OpenTelemetry supports two primary methods of exporting data from your process to XpoLog Platform, either directly from a process or by proxying it through the OpenTelemetry Collector.
🔧 OpenTelemetry code instrumentation is supported for various languages like Java, Go, and Python.