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Design products to export telemetry to any OpenTelemetry backend

opentelemetry.io 14 min read Editor score 7/10

The guidance advocates exporting logs, traces and metrics through OpenTelemetry Protocol so customers can choose their observability backend. Engineers building SaaS or self-hosted products can use the approach to avoid locking telemetry into a vendor-specific stack.

What: - OpenTelemetry-native design lets users export product telemetry to any compatible observability backend.
How: - Products can push logs, traces, and metrics to a configured OTLP endpoint, such as a Collector instance or a backend that supports OTLP.
Why it matters: - Standardized export reduces vendor lock-in and lets engineers preserve useful context across users’ observability stacks.

A product can send telemetry through an OpenTelemetry Collector to a compatible backend. Sketched from the article's own text.

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