Red Hat OpenShift as OpenTelemetry (OTLP) native platform
Red Hat News, Thursday, May 16th, 2024
In Red Hat OpenShift we have always tried to provide a great observability experience out of the box through first class open source projects like Prometheus, Vector, Jaeger, Grafana Tempo and others.
We have now added support for OpenTelemetry to the platform which enables customers to use the OpenTelemetry collector, auto-instrumentation injection and OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP).
Supporting the OTLP protocol is very important for system interoperability. Most of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) observability vendors support OTLP as an ingestion protocol. Another facet of OpenTelemetry is decoupling data collection from storage. This architecture helps avoid vendor lock-in, and provides unified cross-signal capabilities for data collection, processing and forwarding to the observability backend.