Making Azure the Best Place to Observe Your Apps with OpenTelemetry

Thank you to about two dozen colleagues who offered feedback. Our goal is to make Azure the most observable cloud. To that end, we are refactoring Azure’s native observability platform to be based on OpenTelemetry, an industry standard for instrumenting applications and transmitting telemetry. Microsoft decided to take…

30/11/2023Azure Observability Blog

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