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What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

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OpenTelemetry (also referred to as OTel) is an open-source observability framework made up of a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs, that enables IT teams to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis and understand software performance and behavior. OpenTelemetry reference architecture. Span ingestion.

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

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As a result, teams can gain full visibility into their applications and multicloud infrastructure. A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources. The key is knowing what is the root cause of the performance issue. The case for an integrated observability platform.