OpenTelemetry: Trace and instrument your application code

Vincent Composieux
8 min readNov 14, 2021

Originally, two open-source projects existed to allow you to implement tracing in your applications: OpenCensus and OpenTracing.

These two projects had the same goal and decided to merge to form OpenTelemetry. They are now incubated within the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation).

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Vincent Composieux

Freelance web architect who loves code and infrastructure. Issue solver around various technologies.