Telemetry

Telemetry is the automated collection and transmission of real-time performance data from remote systems to a central monitoring hub.

Modern infrastructure relies on telemetry to transform raw system behavior into actionable intelligence. By deploying agents like OpenTelemetry (OTel), operators capture high-fidelity traces, metrics, and logs across distributed architectures. This stack provides the visibility needed to debug a 500ms latency spike in a microservice or monitor CPU saturation on a Kubernetes node. It is the tactical foundation for observability: moving data from the edge to platforms like Prometheus or Grafana so teams can maintain 99.9% uptime.

https://opentelemetry.io