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OpenTelemetry

Learn how leading tech enterprises are using OpenTelemetry (OTel) and Datadog’s unified platform to standardize observability across applications and teams.

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Learn how leading tech enterprises are using OpenTelemetry (OTel) and Datadog’s unified platform to standardize observability across applications and teams.

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E-commerce, media & entertainment, and hospitality firms trust Datadog with their systems and data.

Datadog’s Commitment to OpenTelemetry

Datadog's unified observability and security platform enables Dev, Ops, and Security teams to effortlessly instrument, collect, and monitor telemetry data from any source. Committed to fostering open standards, Datadog contributed its instrumentation libraries to OpenTelemetry in 2019. Today, we uphold this commitment by actively contributing to the OpenTelemetry project and the broader open source community, while continuously improving our support for OTel within Datadog’s platform.

Supporting Open Standards

Integration with popular OSS

OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Redis, Jenkins, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and more

Community involvement

CNCF board representation, OTel contributors and repo maintainers, SIG participation

Open source projects

Datadog Agent, SDKs, Static Analyzer, Vector, Stratus Red Team, and more

Enhance visibility across all OpenTelemetry applications and teams, at any scale

Unify OpenTelemetry metrics, traces and logs in one place

Datadog fully supports ingestion and retention of OpenTelemetry data, allowing teams to instrument applications with OTel SDKs and APIs, and route telemetry using the OTel Collector and Datadog Exporter. Datadog APM and Log Management offer data filtering and aggregation at infinite cardinality, and seamless correlation of metrics, traces, and logs with unified tagging for faster troubleshooting.

DATADOG EXPORTER UNIFIED TAGGING RUNTIME METRICS

Resolve issues faster with advanced analytics and AI

To manage complexity at scale, Datadog offers Trace Queries for analyzing service relationships and finding the source of errors and latency, as well as impacted endpoints and users upstream. Watchdog, Datadog’s AI engine, automatically detects anomalies, outliers, and root causes to expedite resolution. Bits AI enables natural language queries on OpenTelemetry data and incident response automation.

TRACE QUERIES WATCHDOG BITS AI

Standardize observability across all teams and services

OpenTelemetry standardizes instrumentation across organizations, but as teams and number of microservices grow, it’s crucial to also standardize monitoring practices and centralize dispersed information. Datadog Service Catalog enhances OpenTelemetry data with ownership details, on-call coverage, documentation, and runbooks, which help improve incident response efficiency.

SERVICE CATALOG SCORECARDS SLO GUIDE

Platform Advantage

Drive adoption and proactively detect issues with an easy-to-use platform

Datadog offers easy creation of custom dashboards for visualization of OpenTelemetry data with a user-friendly interface, over 30 widget types, and template variables. Proactive alerts can be set against any OpenTelemetry metric using threshold, composite, anomaly, outlier, and forecast Monitors. Both OpenTelemetry metrics and Datadog Monitors can be used to establish Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to ensure consistent customer experience and balance feature development with platform stability.

Full-stack observability with OpenTelemetry and Datadog

OpenTelemetry provides a common standard for organizations to generate, collect, and route metrics, traces, and logs from any source to any destination. Datadog supports OpenTelemetry data through Infrastructure Monitoring, APM, Log Management, Watchdog, and platform capabilities. Deep integration with other Datadog products–Synthetic Monitoring, Real User Monitoring, CI Pipeline Visibility, Sensitive Data Scanner, and more–provides even deeper visibility into the performance and reliability of your applications. By using Datadog to ingest, monitor, and analyze OpenTelemetry data, teams are able to quickly detect, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across their stack, at any scale, and ultimately improve user experience.