Proprietary data formats from multiple vendors stymie IT efforts to prevent outages and maintain application performance. OpenTelemetry backers want to change that.
by Neal Weinberg
Dec. 17, 2024
Some open-source projects are spectacularly successful and become standard components of the IT infrastructure. Take Linux or Kubernetes, for example. Others fall by the wayside – remember the Ubuntu Phone?
OpenTelemetry, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is building momentum and is on track to become another open-source success story. OpenTelemetry, or OTel, addresses a key pain point for network managers who must prevent network outages and maintain high levels of application performance across increasing complex and opaque multi-cloud environments.
