Practical OpenTelemetry: Adopting Open Observability Standards Across Your Organization

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D. Gomez BlancoPractical OpenTelemetryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9075-0_11

11. Maximizing Adoption by Minimizing Friction

Daniel Gomez Blanco¹  

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Edinburgh, UK

 

Interoperability has been an area of focus for the OpenTelemetry project since its conception. The pre-existing diversity of telemetry frameworks, instrumentation libraries, transport formats, and protocols meant that any adopted solution had to support easy ways to integrate new and old instrumentation to provide uniformity and standardization in telemetry pipelines. Even though OpenTelemetry Collectors can go a long way in helping to integrate legacy systems with OpenTelemetry-instrumented ...