obs-open-telemetry-instrumentation

Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation by adding the OTel SDK to incoming requests, outbound dependencies, and background jobs using semantic conventions to emit consistent, correlated traces, metrics, and logs across your services.

Configure an OpenTelemetry collector pipeline by defining OTLP receivers, applying batching processors, setting memory limits, and adding attribute transforms to safely route telemetry to one or more backends.

Prevent high-cardinality attributes and sensitive data leaks by applying redaction policies and sampling configurations within your collector pipeline, ensuring telemetry remains bounded and compliant before reaching backends.

Propagate W3C trace context by instrumenting both web APIs and message consumers with the OpenTelemetry SDK, ensuring distributed traces correlate correctly across service boundaries and asynchronous workflows.

OpenTelemetry instrumentation supports validation by running local collectors for integration testing and asserting resource attribute constraints to prevent invalid configurations or unbounded cardinality from reaching backends.

The best way to route OpenTelemetry data to multiple backends is configuring collector export pipelines with OTLP receivers, processors for batching and sampling, and multiple exporters to distribute telemetry safely.