OpenTelemetry Collector
Spicy — senior dev territoryCI/CD & DevOps
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Your app generates traces, metrics, and logs. Jaeger wants traces in one format, Prometheus wants metrics scraped, Datadog wants everything in its own format. OpenTelemetry Collector is the universal translator in the middle — your app talks to OTel Collector, and OTel Collector talks to everyone else. One SDK, every backend.
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