The OTel project
OTel is an open-source, vendor-neutral project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It provides a set of standards, APIs, and SDKs for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data.
This data includes traces (the flow of requests through systems), metrics (measurements about system behavior), and logs (structured event records). Also, it aims to standardize how applications are instrumented, making it easier to adopt observability tools without vendor lock-in.
When we look from the maturity perspective, Golang is one of the primary supported languages within OTel. Basically, it provides a comprehensive SDK with libraries for the following:
- Tracing:
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace - Metrics:
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric - Context propagation:
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation
OTel’s Go SDK integrates seamlessly with popular libraries and frameworks, making adding instrumentation to your existing...
