02 - OpenTelemetry Standard - API, SDK e Protocol Specification

OTel architecture, API vs SDK, OTLP protocol, language-specific SDKs (Python, Java, Go), maturity levels, adoption roadmap.

What you'll learn

• 1. API: The Instrumentation Contract
• 2. SDK: The Concrete Implementation
• 3. Collector: The Telemetry Router
• 4. OTLP: The Transport Protocol
• Traces (Stable)

This article is part of the Observability series on federicocalo.dev.

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➡️ 02 - OpenTelemetry Standard - API, SDK e Protocol Specification

https://federicocalo.dev/en/blog/opentelemetry-standard-api-sdk

By Federico Calò — Software Developer & Technical Writer