Elastic APM vs. OpenTelemetry Comparison


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About Get deep visibility into your cloud-native and distributed applications — from microservices to serverless architectures — and quickly identify and resolve root causes of issues. Seamlessly adopt APM to automatically identify anomalies, map service dependencies, and simplify investigations into outliers and abnormal behavior. Optimize your application code with extensive support for popular languages, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing. Identify performance issues with automated and curated visual representation of all dependencies, including cloud, messaging, data store, and third-party services and their performance data. Drill into anomalies, transaction details, and metrics for deeper analysis.	About High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior. OpenTelemetry is generally available across several languages and is suitable for use. Create and collect telemetry data from your services and software, then forward them to a variety of analysis tools. OpenTelemetry integrates with popular libraries and frameworks such as Spring, ASP.NET Core, Express, Quarkus, and more! Installation and integration can be as simple as a few lines of code. 100% Free and Open Source, OpenTelemetry is adopted and supported by industry leaders in the observability space.
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Audience Organizations requiring a platform that helps accelerate the software development lifecycle from pipeline to production	Audience Developers interested in a high-quality portable telemetry solution for observability
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Company Information Elastic United States www.elastic.co/observability/application-performance-monitoring	Company Information OpenTelemetry Founded: 2019 opentelemetry.io
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Integrations .NET Supported C++ Supported Go Supported Java Supported PHP Supported Python Supported Ruby Supported Ansible Supported Broch Not Supported KitchenAI Not Supported Langtrace Not Supported Netra Not Supported Observo AI Not Supported Onum Not Supported Openlayer Not Supported Small Hours Not Supported Traccia Not Supported TraceRoot.AI Not Supported Uptrace Not Supported zymtrace Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 18 Integrations	Integrations .NET Supported C++ Supported Go Supported Java Supported PHP Supported Python Supported Ruby Supported Ansible Not Supported Broch Supported KitchenAI Supported Langtrace Supported Netra Supported Observo AI Supported Onum Supported Openlayer Supported Small Hours Supported Traccia Supported TraceRoot.AI Supported Uptrace Supported zymtrace Supported Show More Integrations View All 75 Integrations
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