OpenTelemetry: The Standard Framework for Logs, Metrics, and Traces
A practical guide to OpenTelemetry — the vendor-neutral, CNCF-graduated standard for instrumenting applications with logs, metrics, and distributed traces — covering the three pillars of observability, the .NET SDK, context propagation across the async and messaging patterns covered elsewhere in this series, and how it fits into a complete observability stack.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Why OpenTelemetry Exists






