OpenTelemetry vs OpenTracing: Which is Better for Instrumentation
As software products transition from monolithic to distributed microservice architectures, monitoring and observability have risen. While observability and application monitoring have similar definitions, they also differ in significant ways. Finding problems in an application is the goal of both monitoring and observability. Monitoring, however, tries to record issues that are already recognised and display them on a dashboard so that users can understand their cause and the moment at which they happened. Contrarily, observability adopts a much more low-level strategy, requiring developers to debug the code to comprehend the internal state of an application. Hence, observability is the most recent advancement in application monitoring that aids in discovering unidentified troubles. A system needs to be instrumented to be observable, which entails that the components' code must output traces, metrics, and logs. Traces, metrics, and logs (telemetry data) collection and presentation ...