What is OpenTelemetry?

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OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source observability framework designed for collecting, processing, and exporting traces, metrics, and logs from applications. It provides a standardized way to instrument applications and infrastructure to gain insights into their performance and behavior.

We use OTel at Arize because it's vendor-agnostic, open source, and highly performant. It's a standard that includes batch processing of traces and spans in the magnitude of billions.

We also created a package called arize-otel which makes it simple to setup OpenTelemetry exporters, collectors, and span processors in a few lines of code.

You can learn more about how we trace applications using OpenTelemetry on our OpenInference page.