Implementing OpenTelemetry in React Applications

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace React applications for performance issues and bugs. You can trace user requests from your frontend web application to your downstream services. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( CNCF ) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. Using OpenTelemetry Web libraries, you can instrument your React apps to generate tracing data. You can track user requests from your frontend web application to your downstream services. Before we demonstrate how to implement the OpenTelemetry libraries, let's have a brief overview of OpenTelmetry. What is OpenTelemetry and Why Use it in React Applications? OpenTelemetry is an open-source vendor-agnostic set of tools, APIs, and SDKs used to instrument applications to create and manage telemetry data(logs, metrics, and traces). It aims to make telemetry data a built-in feature of cloud-native software applications. The telemetry data is then sent