Chapter 35 Telemetry

Table of Contents

35.1 Installing OpenTelemetry Support

35.2 Telemetry Variables

35.3 OpenTelemetry TRACE

35.3.1 Configuring Trace Telemetry

35.3.2 Trace Format

35.4 OpenTelemetry Metrics

35.4.1 Configuring Metrics Telemetry

35.4.2 Server Meters

35.4.3 Server Metrics

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) project is an open-source, vendor-neutral observability framework, providing a common observability standard. It enables users to instrument their applications in order to export observability data: traces, metrics and logs, enabling increased granularity of debugging and testing.

Note

This chapter assumes familiarity with the OpenTelemetry Documentation.