Cloud workloads are becoming more complex, leading to the need for open-source and vendor-agnostic solutions like OpenTelemetry for observability across multiple cloud environments.
Before OpenTelemetry, observability was fragmented and vendor-specific, creating challenges like application coupling to specific cloud providers and inconsistent telemetry data formats.
OpenTelemetry, a vendor-neutral open-source framework, simplifies the generation, collection, and exporting of telemetry data, making it vendor-agnostic and industry-standard.
Key benefits of OpenTelemetry include vendor-agnosticism, unified data collection, and core components like SDKs, the Collector, and standardized APIs for multi-cloud environments.