At the end of May, Microsoft introduced the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro. Azure Monitor and all Azure SDKs support OpenTelemetry, integrating with APM systems such as Prometheus and Grafana. Microsoft Azure provides the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro, facilitating the deployment of this technology and increasing the observability of applications.
Microsoft Azure uses OpenTelemetry technology as the industry standard for monitoring and transmitting telemetry. They retrofit Azure Monitor and SDKs to support OpenTelemetry, ensuring compatibility with any language. This vendor-independent approach integrates data with various application performance monitoring (APM) systems, including popular open-source projects such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger & Zipkin, and the Azure platform’s native monitoring solution, Azure Monitor.
