OpenTelemetry is the open-source observability standard under CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), unifying distributed traces, metrics, and logs data collection. Formed from the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus in 2019.
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AppDynamics, founded in 2008 in San Francisco and acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, is a leader in enterprise APM. Its Business Transaction engine directly links application performance to business processes.
Dynatrace, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Linz, Austria, is an AI-powered enterprise observability leader (NYSE: DT). Its Davis AI engine detects anomalies and pinpoints root causes, delivering unified full-stack monitoring, digital experience management, and application security.
Sentry, founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, is the leading open-source error tracking and performance monitoring platform serving 100,000+ teams. It supports 40+ language SDKs, APM distributed tracing, and Session Replay, with both SaaS and self-hosted deployment.
New Relic, founded in 2008 in San Francisco, USA, is a pioneer in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), delivering full-stack observability across APM, logs, infrastructure, and digital experience for 5M+ users worldwide.
Datadog, founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, USA, is a leading cloud monitoring and observability platform offering infrastructure, APM, log and security monitoring with 3000+ integrations and 30000+ enterprise customers.
Jaeger is a CNCF graduated open-source distributed tracing system created by Yuri Shkuro at Uber in 2015, supporting end-to-end trace analysis and OpenTelemetry protocol for microservice observability.
Sematext is a full-stack observability platform integrating infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, and synthetic monitoring, available as cloud-hosted or self-hosted.
New Relic, founded in 2008 in San Francisco, USA, is a pioneer in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), offering a full-stack observability platform spanning APM, log management, infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience monitoring.
Founded in 2015 in Stuttgart, Germany, and acquired by IBM in 2021, Instana is an automated APM and observability platform with automatic topology discovery, 100% sampling distributed tracing, and AI-driven root cause analysis for cloud-native environments.
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When a request crosses many services, only distributed tracing reveals the full path. Based on the official OpenTelemetry docs, this article covers spans, trace context, context propagation, and sampling strategies.