Opentelemetry

Are there real alternatives to OpenTelemetry in 2026? We weigh partial options like Prometheus, Zipkin, and Jaeger, and why OTel remains the standard.

Compare the top New Relic alternatives for 2026 across APM and observability, including Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, Honeycomb, and SigNoz.

Compare the top AWS CloudWatch alternatives for 2026, including SigNoz, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and New Relic, for centralized monitoring.

Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) is the emerging open standard to manage a fleet of telemetry agents at scale.

Learn how to visualize OpenTelemetry data for better observability: key components, choosing a tool, and best practices, with SigNoz examples.

Learn how to deploy and manage OpenTelemetry in Kubernetes with the OpenTelemetry Operator, including auto-instrumenting a Java app.

Learn what OpenTelemetry metrics are, how counters, gauges, and histograms work, and how to use views and exemplars, with practical code examples.

Set up Kubernetes observability with OpenTelemetry. Deploy the Collector as a DaemonSet and Deployment to gather cluster metrics, traces, and logs.

Monitor AWS ECS metrics with OpenTelemetry. Set up the Collector to gather ECS Container Insights metrics and send them to SigNoz.

A complete guide to the OpenTelemetry Collector: agent vs. gateway patterns, YAML configuration, tail sampling, and production best practices.

Instrument browser and frontend apps with OpenTelemetry to capture page loads, user interactions, and traces, then view them in SigNoz.

Learn how to use Apache Kafka as a buffer between OpenTelemetry Collectors for a scalable multi-collector pipeline, with YAML configuration examples.

Step-by-step guide to monitoring Docker container metrics with OpenTelemetry - set up the Collector, send data to SigNoz, and build dashboards and alerts.

Understand OpenTelemetry architecture - signals, context and propagators, the API and SDK, and the Collector's receivers, processors, and exporters.

What an OpenTelemetry APM is, how to choose one, and best practices for OTel instrumentation. Learn how SigNoz delivers open-source, OTel-native APM.

Learn how to instrument a Spring Boot application with the OpenTelemetry Java agent, generate traces and metrics, and visualize them in SigNoz.

Integrate Serilog with OpenTelemetry in .NET to correlate logs with traces, troubleshoot faster, and build a production-ready observability pipeline.

Implement OpenTelemetry in NestJS applications with automatic instrumentation, distributed tracing, and production-ready config, plus troubleshooting tips.

Learn how OpenTelemetry histograms work, how to configure buckets and exponential histograms, and how they work in Python.

How OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation works under the hood: monkey-patching, bytecode instrumentation, and AST modification across languages.

Set up the OpenTelemetry Demo (Astronomy Shop) with SigNoz, view the service map, and debug real failure scenarios across traces, metrics, and logs.

A comprehensive guide to the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution. Learn how it differs from Core, its architecture, and how to build your own.

Learn what OpenTelemetry (OTel) is, how its architecture, Collector, and OTLP work, plus the benefits, challenges, and how to get started with SigNoz.

Monitor Vercel AI SDK apps with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz. A practical guide to instrumenting an LLM app and tracking traces, latency, and token usage.

Learn how to set up OpenTelemetry Django auto-instrumentation using opentelemetry-instrumentation-django to monitor traces, metrics, and logs.

OpenTelemetry spans are the building blocks of distributed tracing. Learn span attributes, kinds, events, and creation, with Go examples.

A pragmatic guide to observability in Rust. Learn how to bridge OpenTelemetry with the tracing ecosystem to seamlessly export traces, logs, and metrics.

Instrument your Next.js frontend to track Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) and third-party widget performance with OpenTelemetry, visualized in SigNoz.

OpenTelemetry exporters send your collected telemetry to a backend. Learn the exporter types (OTLP, Zipkin, Jaeger) and how to configure them.

Learn what an OpenTelemetry backend does, how it differs from the Collector, and how to choose a backend for traces, metrics, logs, storage, querying, and visualization.

Learn OpenTelemetry logs, how they work with traces and metrics, collection approaches, and monitoring with SigNoz.

Learn Kubernetes logging best practices, log collection approaches, troubleshooting patterns, and monitoring with SigNoz.

Learn how to design an OTel-native backend that seamlessly exports logs, traces, and metrics to any observability stack via OTLP.

A hands-on guide to instrumenting a Python LLM app with OpenTelemetry, tracing agent workflows, understanding the developing GenAI ecosystem, and visualizing telemetry in SigNoz.

Datadog monitors Kubernetes through a node Agent, a Cluster Agent, and the Datadog Operator. Here's what each piece does, where the per-host and cardinality costs add up, and how teams replace it with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz.

Monitor Claude Code usage with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz. This blog walks you through implementing comprehensive observability for your Claude Code activity using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz.

Developers report that Claude Code feels less productive over time, but anecdotes aren't actionable. Learn how to measure efficiency degradation using OpenTelemetry by tracking output-per-token ratios across commits, PRs, and lines of code to know for certain whether Claude Code is becoming less effective for your team.

Learn how to instrument FastAPI with OpenTelemetry for production-grade observability. Covers auto-instrumentation, programmatic setup, multi-worker deployments, structured logging, and sampling strategies.

How SigNoz rebuilt its internal observability system to monitor its own cloud platform, ingesting 21 billion metric points, 14 TB of logs, and 10 TB of traces every day across six regions.

OpenTelemetry processors are pipeline components that modify, enrich, filter, batch, and sample telemetry between receivers and exporters. Learn how they work, how ordering affects behavior, and which ones to start with in production.

Monitor n8n usage with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz. This blog walks you through implementing observability for your n8n activity using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz.

OpenTelemetry receivers are the entry points that ingest telemetry into the OTel Collector. Learn how push and pull receivers differ, the main receiver categories, how to choose the right one, and production config examples.

Run the OpenTelemetry Collector in Docker Compose with a minimal config, validate it with telemetrygen, and send data to SigNoz.

This in-depth guide walks you through how to instrument your Next.js application using OpenTelemetry. Learn how to collect traces, metrics, and logs—and send them to Jaeger or SigNoz for complete observability.

ClickStack's managed observability offering promises storage at less than $0.03/GB. But the cost driver that matters most, query compute, remains unpublished and unpredictable. We break down what's known, what's missing, and why it matters.

Set up monitoring for your OpenClaw AI agent using the built-in diagnostics-otel plugin. This step-by-step guide covers traces, metrics, dashboards, and CLI configuration, no collector required.

Datadog is a powerful observability platform, but its complex pricing model often leads to surprise bills. Learn about the key pricing caveats, breakdown of core costs, and why SigNoz offers a simpler, more transparent alternative built on OpenTelemetry.

Explore five lesser-known trace sampling strategies beyond head and tail-based sampling that can help you reduce observability costs while maintaining visibility.

Looking for an open-source APM tool? Latest top open-source APM tool list - 1.SigNoz 2.Grafana 3.Jaeger 4.SkyWalking 5.Elastic APM 6.Pinpoint...

Understand OpenTelemetry Resource Attributes - Learn how to set standard keys, manage precedence between sources, and enforce data quality across teams.

Learn what OpenTelemetry (OTel) Environment Variables are, and how you can use them to manage application behaviour through this practical guide.

Understand what OpenTelemetry Agents are, how they work, and the best practices for instrumenting your applications

Learn how to reduce telemetry volume by 40% with SigNoz

Understand OpenTelemetry Baggage - Learn what it is and how it enables cross-signal context propagation, and its usage via a hands-on demo.

A guide to contributing to OpenTelemetry, with tips on finding good first issues, getting PR reviews, and staying consistent.

A comprehensive guide to OTLP - the vendor-neutral protocol unifying traces, metrics, and logs transmission. Learn about its goals, architecture, and how it helps solve observability fragmentation.

Discover the top 11 MongoDB monitoring tools for 2024. Learn how to optimize your database performance and choose the right tool for your needs.

Learn how to reduce the bundle size of OpenTelemetry in browser frontend applications using tree-shaking and lazy-loading.

This tutorial covers how to monitor a Golang application, collect structured logs, track runtime metrics, and analyze request traces. This guide explains instrumentation with OpenTelemetry, exporting telemetry, and analysing everything in SigNoz.

Implement structured logging in your Next.js app using OpenTelemetry with full trace correlation and SigNoz integration. Covers server and browser logging, log exporters, and client/server context propagation.

Authentication in opentelemetry collectors is crucial for securing your observability pipeline. In this blog, we will discuss the authentication model in OpenTelemetry and how to secure your collectors for incoming and outgoing traffic.

Thinking about using OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing? OpenTelemetry Tracing API provides options for manual as well as automated instrumentation.

LLM Observability breaks in wild today as new libraries like OpenInference don't adhere to OpenTelemetry standards leading to silos and suboptimal performance for users who want to tie LLM observability with rest of their observability stack

OpenTelemetry context propagation helps in moving data between services. Context propagation forms the basis of distributed tracing in which a trace and span context are passed along a request across network boundaries and processes...

Analysis of New Relic's CCU pricing model reveals how it forces engineering teams into heavy sampling. Learn how unpublished CCU costs and complex pricing tiers create budget uncertainty and limit observability.

Struggling to debug your LLM app? This guide provides step-by-step instructions for implementing LangChain observability and monitoring using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz. Trace every agent step, from tool calls to LLM reasoning. We explain it with a demo LLM app.

Monitoring and Observability for LangChain agent apps with SigNoz and OpenTelemetry. This blog takes you through a practical implementation of OTel in a MCP agent app built using LangChain.

Monitor LlamaIndex apps with SigNoz and OpenTelemetry. This blog takes takes you through a practical implementation of OTel in an app built using LlamaIndex.

This blog is an attempt for anyone lost to find their way into observability and a wake-up call for devs to they should think about observability more actively today than ever before.

Learn how to monitor MCP server-client systems with OpenTelemetry. This guide covers the importance of observability, common failure modes, and a step-by-step implementation to ensure your MCP server-client systems are fully instrumented.

Explore powerful real-world observability patterns in your Next.js application using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz—from tracking 404s to monitoring third-party APIs, capturing exceptions, analyzing cache hit/miss, and more.

Learn how to deploy OpenTelemetry-instrumented Next.js apps to production with Vercel or self-hosted infra. This guide covers collector vs direct exporter setups, alerting, sampling, and data sanitization best practices.

In the fast-paced world of CI/CD, understanding the performance and behaviour of your pipelines is crucial. In this guide, we'll walk through setting up OpenTelemetry for GitHub Actions, with practical examples and configuration snippets.

Learn how to collect logs from .NET applications using OpenTelemetry. This guide includes configuring the ILogger interface and using OpenTelemetry to correlate logs with traces.

Learn how to monitor Backstage, the developer portal, using OpenTelemetry. This guide covers the importance of observability, common failure modes, and a step-by-step implementation to ensure your Backstage instance is fully instrumented.

Kafka has become a go-to choice for event-driven systems today, but its black box nature can make it hard to monitor. This blog explores how OpenTelemetry can help observe Kafka ecosystems, providing insights into distributed tracing and metrics collection.

Rising observability costs and data noise are common issues today. This blog shares practical methods to optimise OpenTelemetry pipelines, reduce costs by means of filtering, sampling, dropping logs based on severity level, and setting up ingestion guardrails.

OpenTelemetry has made infratsructure monitoring easy to get started with and comes with options for kubernetes cluster and pod monitoring as well. OpenTelemetry also makes it possible to achieve correlation with application monitoring as well.

CloudWatch is a great observability tool for AWS users, but it has its limitations. In this blog, we will explore some of CloudWatch's shortcomings and how modern observability platforms can help.

Learn how to implement OpenTelemetry with Nginx for enhanced observability. This guide covers setup, configuration, and best practices for effective monitoring.

HTTP endpoints can be monitored with OpenTelemetry. The HTTP Check Receiver is a component of the OpenTelemetry Collector that enables monitoring of HTTP endpoints. It periodically sends HTTP requests to specified endpoints...

Discover the essentials of LLM Observability, including key pillars, best practices, and tools to optimize your AI applications' performance and reliability.

Compare OpenTelemetry and Datadog to choose the best monitoring solution for your needs. Learn about features, implementation, and alternatives.

Explore the three pillars of observability - logs, metrics, and traces - and learn how they work together to provide comprehensive system insights.

Learn how to effectively send and filter Python logs using OpenTelemetry. This guide covers instrumentation, advanced techniques, and best practices.

Learn the essentials of O11y (Observability) in this beginner's guide. Discover how to implement it effectively to improve system performance and reliability.

Welcome to SigNoz Launch Week 1.0. This is our first launch week, and we’re excited to introduce you to some cool new features in SigNoz. The feature in spotlight for Day 5 is Access Token Management & Onboarding. Access Token Management was a popular requested feature by SigNoz users. Before we enabled it through our UI, users had to reach out to us via email.

Welcome to SigNoz Launch Week 1.0. This is our first launch week, and we’re excited to introduce you to some cool new features in SigNoz. The feature in spotlight for Day 4 is Logs Pipeline in SigNoz. With Log Pipelines, you can transform logs to suit your querying and aggregation needs before they get stored in the database.

Welcome to SigNoz Launch Week 1.0. This is our first launch week, and we’re excited to introduce you to some cool new features in SigNoz. The feature in spotlight for Day 3 is Frontend monitoring in SigNoz. Learn how to monitor core web vitals...

Welcome to SigNoz Launch Week 1.0. This is our first launch week, and we’re excited to introduce you to some cool new features in SigNoz. The feature in spotlight for Day 2 are some amazing upgrades to metrics & query builder..

Welcome to SigNoz Launch Week 1.0.This is our first launch week, and we’re excited to introduce you to some cool new features in SigNoz. The feature in spotlight for Day 1 is our new Logs Explorer...

This is our first launch week, and we’re excited to introduce you to some cool new features in SigNoz. We ship fast but often miss sharing the story behind these features with our community...

Monitoring PostgreSQL for performance issues is critical. Metrics that need to be monitored for PostgreSQL can be 1. Query Throughput and Latency Metrics 2. Disk Utilization and I/O Operations 3. Metrics on Connection Health and Pooling...

Steps to monitor PostgreSQL metrics with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect PostgreSQL metrics 3. Send collected metrics to SigNoz...

CloudWatch metrics play a critical role in monitoring AWS resources and facilitating effective troubleshooting during system failures. In this guide, learn everything about Cloudwatch metrics, its types, custom metrics and...

Steps to monitor CouchDB performance metrics with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect CouchDB performance metrics 3. Send collected metrics to SigNoz....

OpenTelemetry round for 2023 and what to expect in 2024

Steps to collect and export Azure Monitor metrics with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Azure Monitor metrics 3. Send collected metrics to SigNoz...

Events in Kubernetes are objects that provide insights into the state changes within the Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes events monitoring is critical to provide real-time insights into the operational state of a Kubernetes cluster...

In this tutorial, you will configure Promtail to send logs to OpenTelemetry Collector instead of Loki. This can be done by using the Loki receiver in OpenTelemetry Collector. The logs collected by OpenTelemetry Collector can then be sent to SigNoz - an OpenTelemetry-native APM...

Steps to monitor HAproxy metrics and logs with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect HAProxy metrics and logs 3. Send collected data to SigNoz...

Steps to monitor Kubernetes cluster metrics with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Kubernetes cluster metrics 3. Send collected metrics to SigNoz for monitoring and visualization...

In this tutorial, we will provide a step-by-step guide to monitoring Amazon EKS nodes and pod-level metrics with OpenTelemetry. OpenTelemetry collector can collect these metrics and send them to a backend of your choice for monitoring and visualization...

Steps to monitor Nginx metrics and logs with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Nginx metrics and logs 3. Send collected data to SigNoz...

Spring Boot is one of the most popular frameworks for building micro-services in Java. In this tutorial, we will learn how to monitor a Spring Boot application with SigNoz and OpenTelemetry...

Steps to monitor MongoDB metrics with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect MongoDB metrics 3. Send collected metrics to SigNoz...

Steps to monitor Memcached metrics with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Memcached metrics 3. Send collected metrics to SigNoz...

Join Nica and Srikanth to talk in detail about the OpenTelemetry Trace API. We'll talk about adding spans, events, attributes and other extra info, whether it's really possible to replace logs with traces, and more.

OpenTelemetry Collector can collect Prometheus metrics and send them to a backend of your choice. In this tutorial, you will configure an OpenTelemetry Collector to scrape Prometheus metrics from a Flask application...

Steps to monitor MySQL metrics with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect MySQL metrics 3. Send collected metrics to SigNoz...

Steps to monitor Apache Web Server metrics with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Apache metrics 3. Send collected metrics to SigNoz...

When you think about observability? Do you just think of it as an insurance? Or do you think of it as a growth driver? In this article, we will discuss how observability can be a growth driver for your business.

OpenTelemetry Java SDKs can be used to monitor a Java application for performance. You can use OpenTelemetry instrumentation libraries to generate traces. OpenTelemetry collector can help you collect JVM metrics...

Join Nica and Ankit as they discuss discuss the relationship between OpenTelemetry and ApacheKafka....

Join Nica and Nir to discuss how machine learning can be monitored with OpenTelemetry. We'll see how the SigNoz dashboards can help you monitor resource use, performance, and find problems before your infra budget goes haywire....

Steps to monitor RabbitMQ metrics with OpenTelemetry 1. Setting up OpenTelemetry Collector 2. Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to collect RabbitMQ metrics 3. Send collected metrics to SigNoz...

Kubecon 2023 is coming up in just a week in Chicago. For engnineers concerned with observability, there are a number of talks you can't miss. I wrote up this guide to the talks I'm most looking forward to.

What is the hidden potential of OpenTelemetry? It goes beyond just tracing and monitoring your software. The OpenTelemetry project aims to standardize performance reporting and trace data propagation in microservice architectures. This context propagation is a valuable feature for those who use OpenTelemetry tracing. Tracetest and SigNoz provide testing and insights into the capabilities of OpenTelemetry.

This article shows how a Python developer can go from having traces but not answers, to fully understanding the root cause of a latency issue.

OpenTelemetry powers open-source observability in modern applications. OpenTelemetry’s top use cases include distributed tracing, performance monitoring, context propagation, service dependency analysis, and more. It has many advantages over vendor-based agents...

OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs, SDKs, and tools that help you generate and collect telemetry data. But then, you need a tool capable of storing and visualizing the data to make sense out of it. In this article, we discuss top OpenTelemetry tools that...

SigNoz Fundraise

You Need Observability to call yourself a developer. We’ll start with explaining observability’s role in software development, and the second half of this piece is a guide to instrumenting a demo app with the open source tools OpenTelemetry and SigNoz.

With your help, we can destroy observability in our lifetime.

we will explore how, in both New Relic and Datadog, OpenTelemetry data is a ‘second class citizen.’

We often get asked, what's the best place to get started with OpenTelemetry - host metrics, traces, or even logs...

This guide is for anyone who is getting started monitoring their application with OpenTelemetry, and is generating unstructured logs.

The team at SigNoz would like to share recent developments released this month that greatly enhance the ability to dynamically query your trace and log data. With these tools anyone can explore complex OpenTelemetry data and gain insight into their stack.

Sharing a query that lets you compare the time between two spans in different traces, even across two different services.

Should you send your OpenTelemetry data to a generic database or use a specific tool. In this post, I discuss about pros and cons of building your own OpenTelemetry stack...

An end-to-end tutorial on using SigNoz to monitor your Kubernetes cluster with OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing is a method of tracking application requests as they flow from front-end devices to back-end services and databases in a distributed system. Using OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs, you can implement distributed tracing in your software systems....

We believe the aim of observability is to solve customer issues quickly. Creating monitoring dashboards is useless if it can’t help engineering teams quickly identify the root causes of performance issues...

Prometheus is a popular monitoring tool for kubernetes. Kube-state metrics and node exporters send a lot of metrics. But visualization of the metrics in charts is still painful. In this article, let's see how we can have some out of box visualizations with Prometheus.