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Open standard and collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools for generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data. Provides automatic instrumentation for popular frameworks and supports exporting to any backend.
When you want vendor-neutral instrumentation, need to switch observability backends without code changes, or want standardized distributed tracing across polyglot microservices.
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Vendor-neutral observability framework for collecting traces, metrics, and logs
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