OpenTelemetry (OTel) adoption continues to accelerate as the leading open standard for instrumenting, collecting, and routing telemetry data. However, while OTel offers standardization and flexibility, orgs still need an observability platform that can handle today’s use cases—and tomorrow’s—at scale and without trade-offs.
In this session, you’ll see how Datadog supports OTel-native setups while also offering hybrid approaches. Whether you're instrumenting and collecting data with OTel components, Datadog components, or a mix of both, Datadog enables you to centralize telemetry, unify monitoring, and gain comprehensive visibility into your applications and infrastructure with full interoperability.
Learn how the Datadog Distribution of the OTel Collector (DDOT), embedded directly in the Datadog Agent, lets you deploy at scale, manage your Collector fleet from a single screen, use advanced monitoring workflows, and access enterprise-grade support
You’ll also see how out-of-the-box dashboards unify OpenTelemetry and Datadog-native telemetry, and how W3C Trace Context and OTel API support in Datadog SDKs allow seamless end-to-end tracing across mixed environments.
We’ll show that you can adopt OTel your way–whether your setup is fully native, hybrid, or anywhere in between–without added complexity or compromise.