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OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is an open-source, vendor-neutral observability framework for cloud-native software. It provides APIs, SDKs, automatic-instrumentation agents, and collector services for capturing distributed traces, metrics, logs, and contextual metadata such as baggage. Its context-propagation mechanism correlates telemetry across service boundaries and carries trace identity through an application’s request path, including standard HTTP communication. The OpenTelemetry Collector receives, processes, filters, and routes telemetry to observability backends such as Jaeger, Prometheus, commercial systems, or custom solutions. It supports native SDKs for more than 12 languages and is hosted as a graduated project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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What OpenTelemetry is used for

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  • Telemetry framework used to collect agent execution exhaust for observability, evaluation, and optimization.

  • Automatically instruments the standard HTTP communication and provides a trace ID across the request path.

  • Provides metrics and traces for inspecting agent tool calls and model outputs.

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  • Provides the tracing standard used to make MLflow traces exportable to other observability backends.

Videos mentioning OpenTelemetry

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