Chapter 2. About Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry

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:

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

You can use Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry in combination with Red Hat OpenShift Distributed Tracing Platform.