Last updated: October 22, 2026 · Reading time: 9–13 minutes What is OpenTelemetry? In short: the open, vendor-neutral standard for collecting, processing, and sending metrics, logs, and traces to a backend of your choice. Anyone who deals with monitoring or observability will sooner or later (more likely sooner) come across OpenTelemetry. This is a topic on which there are often differing views and opinions as to what it really entails. In this article, I'll try to provide an overview of the...
