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Forward logs from the OpenTelemetry Collector with the Datadog Exporter

What's this blog post about?

OpenTelemetry is an open source toolset that provides visibility into cloud-native applications by collecting metrics, traces, and logs from various languages and exporting them to a backend of choice. Datadog supports OpenTelemetry and offers the Datadog Exporter for users to maximize its benefits. The latest update allows forwarding logs to Datadog for deep insights into application usage, performance, and security. Additionally, Datadog automatically correlates logs and traces from the OpenTelemetry Collector, enabling better understanding of an application's behavior, faster troubleshooting, and improved user experience optimization.

Company
Datadog

Date published
Oct. 12, 2022

Author(s)
Prashant Jain, Lutao Xie

Word count
776

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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