Chapter 35 Telemetry

35.1 Installing OpenTelemetry Support
35.2 Telemetry Variables
35.3 OpenTelemetry Trace
- 35.3.1 Configuring Trace Telemetry
- 35.3.2 Trace Format
35.4 OpenTelemetry Metrics

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) project is an open-source, vendor-neutral observability framework, providing a common observability standard. It enables users to instrument their applications in order to export observability data: traces, metrics and logs, enabling increased granularity of debugging and testing.

Note

OpenTelemetry support is a component included in MySQL Enterprise Edition, a commercial product. To learn more about commercial products, see https://www.mysql.com/products/.

This chapter assumes familiarity with the OpenTelemetry Documentation.