The recent announcement that OpenTelemetry (OTel) has achieved CNCF graduation further reinforces OTel’s credibility as the industry standard for vendor-neutral telemetry. As organizations increasingly adopt the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the OTel Collector, and OTel SDKs, they need an observability platform that supports OTel-native data without sacrificing flexibility or portability.
To meet these important customer requirements, Datadog has been significantly expanding its support for OTel-native observability. Whether by enabling you to send OTLP telemetry through vendor-neutral ingestion paths, to investigate issues with OTel-native data, or to manage OpenTelemetry Collectors across a fleet, Datadog supports OTel at every step. Behind the scenes, Datadog is also continuing to make significant contributions to the OpenTelemetry project to further enrich the open source standard with additional powerful features.
Send OTel data to Datadog in a vendor-neutral way
Many teams adopt OTel because they want the flexibility to choose how telemetry is generated, collected, processed, and routed. Using OTel SDKs, the OTel Collector, and OTLP lets teams build pipelines that fit their architecture.
