OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs, SDKs and other components (like the OpenTelemetry Collector or Operator) designed for the generation of high-quality telemetry data (traces, metrics, and logs) from cloud-native software. This tag is suitable for questions about operating OpenTelemetry components (such as the collector), instrumenting software or libraries to take advantage of it, or questions about writing new OpenTelemetry components.
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Where does Micrometer fit in OpenTelemetry project
With OpenTelemetry trying to become the de-facto standard for Observability of applications/services, where does Micrometer fit in? Micrometer website claims that it is SLF4J for metrics, but does it not contradict OpenTelemetry's Metrics APIs? I…

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Is it possible to use Serilog with OpenTelemetry?
Is it possible to use Serilog with OpenTelemetry?
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/blob/main/docs/logs/getting-started/README.md

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How to correctly use OpenTelemetry exporter with OpenTelemetry collector in client and server?
I am trying to make OpenTelemetry exporter to work with OpenTelemetry collector.
I found this OpenTelemetry collector demo.
So I copied these four config files
docker-compose.yml (In my app, I removed generators part and prometheus which I…

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What is a use-case for multiple Tracers?
I'm implementing tracing feature with otel's official sdk tracing pacakge in Golang. The link for its repository is here.
While TracerProvider has all the configuraion such as Exporter, SpanProcessor, Sampler..., we can still choose different…

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Opentelemetry agent vs spring cloud sleuth
I’m looking for some distributed tracing technologies for our spring boot services, in the internet, I see we have 2 popular choices I.e opentelemetry agent and spring cloud sleuth.
I see both of the them have good integration support, I’m confused…

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How to create Context using traceId in Open Telemetry
I try to get all spans created in the following chain associated to the same trace context/traceId by context propagation:
service1 -> aws sqs queue -> service2
Auto. context propagation is not working with aws sqs and aws sdk v2 atm…

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OpenTelemetry Export to Elastic Search without Elastic APM
I'd like to export trace/metrics data to Elastic Search using OpenTelemetry, but I'd prefer to avoid Elastic APM. Is it possible?
The opentelemetry contrib repo apparently suggests it is possible, however, I did not find anything on elastic.co…

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How grafana dashboard filter Zipkin (tracing, Explore) metrics?
I'd like to ask about zipkin with grafana dashboard.
I installed zipkin with grafana using official docker-compose (but storage is elasticsearch. because when I use mysql, an access error happens. es doesn't…

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How to import and use metrics in python in the new versions of opentelemetry packages
I'm just starting in telemetry and I got stuck trying to use metrics in the new versions of opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk.
What I have found
1 - Documentation
This is a old getting started (do not try those scripts, not up to…

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How to choose an Opentelemetry backend vendor?
With Opentelemetry becoming the new standard of tracing, and it being vendor-agnostic, how do we then choose a backend vendor for opentelemetry?
For example, there are currently many vendors that supports Opentelemetry like GCP Cloudtrace, Datadog,…

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AWS XRay service map components are disconnected
I'm using open telemetry to export trace information of the following application:
A nodejs kafka producer sends messages to input-topic. It uses kafkajs instrumented with opentelemetry-instrumentation-kafkajs library. I'm using the example from…

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Opentelemetry what is the difference between collector and agent?
I am trying to understand if there is any significant difference between the two.
While looking at the example, I have noticed that it uses exactly the same binary and args…

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Adding Opentelemetry to .Net Core worker service
I am trying to add opentelemetry to one of my .net core 5.0 worker service project everything works ok but the traces are not begin sent to the Jaeger UI, I also notice the ActivitySource.StartActivity return null, I searched on google and looks…

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Unify spans of different services with OpenTelemetry
I am just starting with OpenTelemetry and have created two (micro)services for this purpose: Standard and GeoMap.
The end-user sends requests to the Standard service, who in turn sends requests to GeoMap to fetch informations before returning the…

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how to use go-swagger with sentry performance monitoring?
i am using go-swagger .
Sentry added perormance monitoring i am looking for best pratice to add this feature in my project.
I know, go-swagger uses "net/http" but it is still a liitle bit controversial about correct way to adding.
I added init…

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