OpenTelemetry is an open standard for the creation, management, and exchange of telemetry data, enabling applications to record and share relevant data points with backends (such as Dynatrace) for aggregation and further analysis.
For that purpose, OpenTelemetry defines a set of protocols, interfaces, and record types that provide telemetry data in a fully interoperable and vendor-agnostic manner across platforms, languages, and technologies. In addition to defining these framework fundamentals, OpenTelemetry also provides SDKs, libraries, and instrumentation tooling for a wide array of popular languages (such as Java, JavaScript, Python, and more).
Dynatrace has been an active supporter and a key contributor of OpenTelemetry from the beginning of the project. A large number of Dynatrace technologies already support OpenTelemetry natively and Dynatrace is committed to further extending that coverage.
Learn about the OpenTelemetry basics with Dynatrace
Discover how to use the OpenTelemetry SDK in your applications
Learn how to configure your OpenTelemetry exporter to successfully export to Dynatrace
Learn how to use the Collector to batch and transform telemetry data
Find out how to ingest OpenTelemetry traces using OneAgent's code module OpenTelemetry sensor
How to integrate OpenTelemetry with popular platforms
How to fix the most common instrumentation and ingestion issues