TL;DR - OpenTelemetry
- OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for traces and metrics
- It standardizes instrumentation across languages for monitoring tools
- Completely free and open-source
Pricing: Free forever
Best for: Individuals & startups
Score: 90/100
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- Traces, metrics, logs
- Vendor neutral
- Auto-instrumentation
- CNCF project
About OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry provides observability standards for applications. Traces, metrics, and logs with vendor-neutral APIs—the standard that unifies observability instrumentation.
The standard is becoming universal. The vendor neutrality prevents lock-in. The community is huge.
Applications instrumenting for observability use OpenTelemetry for standard instrumentation.
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OpenTelemetry FAQ
Yes, OpenTelemetry is completely free and open source. CNCF project. Vendor-neutral observability standard.
OpenTelemetry is an observability framework. Collect traces, metrics, and logs. Standard instrumentation for any backend.
OpenTelemetry is instrumentation, Jaeger is a tracing backend. Use OpenTelemetry to send data to Jaeger or any backend.
Vendor-neutral instrumentation. Switch backends without changing code. Combine with Datadog, Honeycomb, Jaeger, or others.