OpenTelemetry Has a Free API — Unified Observability for Any Stack

OpenTelemetry: One Standard for Traces, Metrics, and Logs OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the CNCF standard for observability. Instrument once, export to any backend — Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic. No vendor lock-in. Why OpenTelemetry One SDK for traces + metrics + logs Auto-instrumentation for 20+ languages Vendor-neutral — switch backends without code changes CNCF graduated project (same level as K8s) The Free API Python Auto-Instrumentation pip install opentelemetry-distro opentelemetry-exporter-otlp opentelemetry-bootstrap -a install # Run any Python app with auto-instrumentation opentelemetry-instrument \ --service_name my-api \ --exporter_otlp_endpoint http://localhost:4317 \ python app.py Manual Instrumentation from opentelemetry import trace from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter provider = TracerProvider () prov