OpenTelemetry vs OpenTracing - choosing one for instrumentation

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  • signoz

    SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

  • Which backend analysis tool to choose? You can try SigNoz, a full stack open-source APM built natively on OpenTelemetry.

  • opentracing-javascript

    Discontinued OpenTracing API for Javascript (both Node and browser). 🛑 This library is DEPRECATED! https://github.com/opentracing/specification/issues/163

  • OpenTracing was an open-source project aimed at providing vendor-neutral APIs and instrumentation for distributed tracing. In distributed cloud-native applications, it is difficult for engineering teams to see how requests are performing across services. And that’s where distributed tracing comes into the picture.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • opentelemetry-go

    OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK

  • OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. Telemetry data includes logs, metrics, and traces.

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