OpenTelemetry

Quick Start (signal design)

• Export OTLP via an OpenTelemetry Collector (vendor-neutral endpoint).

• Standardize resource attributes: service.name , service.version , deployment.environment .

• Start with auto-instrumentation, then add manual spans and log correlation.

Load Next (References)

• references/concepts.md — traces/metrics/logs, context propagation, sampling, semantic conventions

• references/collector-and-otlp.md — Collector pipelines, processors, deployment patterns, tail sampling

• references/instrumentation-and-troubleshooting.md — manual spans, propagation pitfalls, cardinality, debugging