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About Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry

Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry 3.8

Key features and benefits

Red Hat OpenShift Documentation Team

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Learn about the key capabilities and advantages of adopting OpenTelemetry for your observability needs.

Chapter 1. About Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry
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1.1. Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry overview
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Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry is based on the open source OpenTelemetry project, which aims to provide unified, standardized, and vendor-neutral telemetry data collection for cloud-native software. Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry provides support for deploying and managing the OpenTelemetry Collector and simplifying the workload instrumentation.

The OpenTelemetry Collector can receive, process, and forward telemetry data in multiple formats, making it the ideal component for telemetry processing and interoperability between telemetry systems. The Collector provides a unified solution for collecting and processing metrics, traces, and logs.

The OpenTelemetry Collector provides several features including the following:

Data Collection and Processing Hub
It acts as a central component that gathers telemetry data like metrics and traces from various sources. This data can be created from instrumented applications and infrastructure.
Customizable telemetry data pipeline
The OpenTelemetry Collector is customizable and supports various processors, exporters, and receivers.
Auto-instrumentation features
Automatic instrumentation simplifies the process of adding observability to applications. Developers do not need to manually instrument their code for basic telemetry data.

Here are some of the use cases for the OpenTelemetry Collector:

Centralized data collection
In a microservices architecture, the Collector can be deployed to aggregate data from multiple services.
Data enrichment and processing
Before forwarding data to analysis tools, the Collector can enrich, filter, and process this data.
Multi-backend receiving and exporting
The Collector can receive and send data to multiple monitoring and analysis platforms simultaneously.

You can use Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry in combination with Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform (Tempo).

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