OpenTelemetry
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High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability
OpenTelemetry (abbreviated OTel) can be described as an observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting data such as Traces, Metrics, and Logs.
However, OpenTelemetry does not provide a way to store or query Traces, Metrics, and Logs data; instead, it sends the data to commercial services (Datadog, New Relic, etc.) or open-source backends (Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana) to store it.