Open Telemetry

Simplify Your OTel Trace With Google Cloud

Simplify Your OTel Trace With Google Cloud

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the go-to standard for monitoring applications, offering a vendor-neutral way to capture telemetry data like traces, metrics, and logs. This enables consistent instrumentation and avoids vendor lock-in. Developers widely use OTel to instrument applications, with exporting telemetry data to Google Cloud Observability services.

OTel’s native data format follows OTLP (standing for OpenTelemetry Protocol) standard. To export OTel data to Google Cloud usually requires exporters like Google Cloud Trace Exporter for Go that exist for most of the popular programming languages.