Unified Observability for Contemporary Distributed Systems: An Overview of OpenTelemetry
Monitoring is more complicated when applications move from monolithic architectures to microservices, containers, serverless operations, and cloud-native platforms. Before producing a response, a single user request may pass through dozens of databases, message queues, services, and APIs. Conventional monitoring technologies frequently offer fragmented visibility, which makes it challenging to spot system faults, troubleshoot performance problems,…