OpenTelemetry

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.

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.