OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack

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Instead, supporting export to any practice that gives users the freedom to choose their observability stack. This post outlines how you can design your product so users can export their logs, traces, and metrics to an OTel backend when they want to. The four observability signalsOpenTelemetry defines four signal types, all carried over the standard and application logs with timestamps and metadata. Traces: Distributed traces and spans so users can see request flows across services and correlate them with logs. Metrics: Counters, gauges, and histograms (e. g. , request rates, latency, error rates).

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