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on 04-01-2022 11:13 AM - edited on 03-14-2024 09:10 AM by Ryan.Paredez
Get up to speed on OpenTelemetry and how AppDynamics will support it, expanding telemetry data sources for our advanced analytics, AI/ML, and troubleshooting capabilities.
How is AppDynamics supporting OTel?
Owned by the Linux Foundation, OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral standard for collecting telemetry data for applications, their supporting infrastructures and services.
Read the details in the What is OpenTelemetry (OT) and why should you care? post on the AppDynamics Blog.
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While OpenTelemetry provides a solution similar to AppDynamics Agents, there are some differences and common misconceptions:
What is AppDynamics doing to support OTel?
Once ingested, OpenTelemetry data will be a first-class citizen, treated as any data coming from our own agents, on which you can have health rules, flowmaps, and more.
Starting in Spring 2022, we will cover IT Ops use cases for health assessment and alerting. Expect additional use cases in due course, too.
Depending on your region, you’ll see a new OTel tab in the menu bar once you upgrade to AppDynamics version 22.3.
NOTE | Please check the current list of AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry-supported regions.
To use AppDynamics OTel, you will need to:
With the OTel standard, you can now leverage from more telemetry data sources to enrich AppDynamics' advanced analytics, AI/ML, and troubleshooting capabilities.
Each AppDynamics customer instance will be able to access 350 GB of OTel data per month, free of additional charge. See more information in the Licenses and Entitlements documentation.
Documentation:
AppDynamics Blog posts:
Demonstration Video and product information: AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry video
Live Webinar: Embracing AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry (April 27, 2022)
Hi! Very interesting. Is it possible to collect traces of all the transactions as Jaeger does and see them in the controller UI?
Regards
Hello, @Sebastian.Perna
I understand that this functionality is not available at this time. If we discover additional information, we will post here. Please don't hesitate to elaborate on your use case, though!
Regards,
Claudia Landivar, Community Manager & Editor
The video link "AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry video" does not work / is not available. It takes me to a Cisco log in screen, so the video is probably there, just not public. My AppDynamics log in does not work, and I don't have a Cisco login.
Hello, @Sly.Gryphon
Thanks for alerting us to the issue you experienced. I've corrected the link to the AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry video, so you should now have no trouble reaching this public-facing page. You definitely don't need special access permissions. If it doesn't work for any reason, please let us know! And thanks again for reaching out.
Claudia Landivar | Community Manager & Editor
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