OpenTelemetry integration
On the IBM® DataPower® Gateway, you can configure integration points for OpenTelemetry. This support is primarily for API Connect integration.
The DataPower configuration of an integration point for OpenTelementry is the creation of an
instance of the OpenTelemetry object. For each instance of an OpenTelemetry object, define an
OpenTelemetry exporter, an OpenTelemetry sampler, and the vector of resource attributes to use for
integration. The OpenTelemetry exporter and the OpenTelementry sampler are components of
OpenTelemetry, which is an observability framework
- An OpenTelemetry exporter defines how to send the collected spans to a remote server.
- An OpenTelemetry sampler makes a sampling decision. A sampler decides whether to capture the tracing data for a particular request.
OpenTelemetry (also referred to as OTel) is an open standard that CNCF created. OpenTelemetry includes an open source observability framework. On the DataPower Gateway, the OpenTelemetry integration is based on the OpenTelemetry CNCF incubating project. For more information, see OpenTelemetry website.