Observability Primer
Learn some core concepts before you dig into OpenTelemetry.
Concepts
What is OpenTelemetry, what does it provide and what does it support?
The concepts section helps you learn more about the data sources and components of the OpenTelemetry project in order to obtain a deeper understanding of how OpenTelemetry works.
What is OpenTelemetry?
Background information on OpenTelemetry.
Signals
Learn about the categories of telemetry supported by OpenTelemetry
Components
The main components that make up OpenTelemetry
Semantic Conventions
Common names for different kinds of operations and data.
Instrumenting
How OpenTelemetry facilitates automatic and manual instrumentation of applications.
Instrumenting libraries
Learn how to add native instrumentation to your library.
Data Collection
The OpenTelemetry project facilitates the collection of telemetry data via the OpenTelemetry Collector.
Distributions
A distribution, not to be confused with a fork, is customized version of an OpenTelemetry component.
Glossary
Terminology you may or may not be familiar with used by the OpenTelemetry project.
Last modified October 21, 2022: First draft for a persona based documentation. (#1731) (82fde3d)