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_9

9. Protocol and Collector

Daniel Gomez Blanco¹  

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Edinburgh, UK

 

The previous four chapters focused on the OpenTelemetry API and its SDK implementation and how interoperability, as one of the core values of the project, is implemented by allowing application owners to choose between multiple telemetry exporters. Exporters that are specific to a backend tend to support only a single signal, and they normally support a subset of all OpenTelemetry features. In order to provide a standard data exchange format that can support all signals and features, the OpenTelemetry Protocol ...