New Relic sponsored this podcast.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) OpenTelemetry project was created to help foster the adoption of observability by helping to improve interoperability among the different observability toolsets through a vendor-neutral framework. In this way, OpenTelemetry should help to provide a single set of APIs, libraries, agents and collector services to capture distributed traces, metrics and other information from an application for improved observability.

In this The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by TNS Founder and Publisher Alex Williams, Ben Evans, principal engineer and JVM technologies architect, New Relic, discussed OpenTelemetry and New Relic’s contributions to OpenTelemetry and other open source projects.

The genesis of OpenTelemtry was not to create a technology for its own sake in anticipation of what observability users might need, but to serve as a common framework to meet palpable challenges organizations already face.