Observability: OpenTelemetry – Decoupled by design – Distributed Computing Musings

OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral, open-sourced set of standards and tools designed to integrate well with various observability tools. Unlike Prometheus, which is a metrics framework, OpenTelemetry acts as a standard protocol for observability, simplifying the integration with other tools and making it easier to switch between different observability solutions without changing the microservice instrumentation. This leads to more flexible and less risky observability infrastructure management.