Exporting to Backends
Send telemetry to OTLP collectors and tools.
Getting Telemetry Out
Generating traces and metrics is only half the job; you must export them to a backend that stores, queries and visualizes the data. OpenTelemetry uses exporters for this.
Exporters
An exporter sends telemetry to a destination. Different exporters target different systems: console (for dev), OTLP (the standard protocol), and vendor-specific exporters.
All lessons in this course
- The Three Pillars of Observability
- Distributed Tracing
- Collecting Metrics
- Exporting to Backends