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A few years ago, the observability landscape was fragmented. Every vendor and open-source community had its own standard—OpenTracing, Prometheus, OpenCensus—each addressing part of the visibility ...

OpenTelemetry is an open-source project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to provide a unified set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation for telemetry data.

CNCF graduated OpenTelemetry in May 2026. Azure Monitor, CloudWatch and Google Cloud Observability support OTLP ingestion. Kubernetes and hybrid cloud are major OpenTelemetry use cases. OpenTelemetry, ...