Documentation

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OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs, SDKs, tooling and integrations that are designed for the creation and management of telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. This documentation page is intended to broadly cover key terms, concepts, and instructions on how to use OpenTelemetry in your software.


Concepts

What is OpenTelemetry, what does it provide and what does it support?

Javascript

An language-specific introduction to OpenTelemetry in JavaScript (for Node.JS & the browser).

.NET

Go

Java

Python

Collector

Vendor-agnostic way to receive, process and export telemetry data

Workshop

Resources to aid in running an OpenTelemetry workshop

Contribution Guidelines

How to contribute to the OpenTelemetry documentation

Last modified November 10, 2020: Add more concepts (#306) (b0bb309)