Send OpenTelemetry metrics to Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud-native software. It is used to instrument frameworks and components and export telemetry data (traces, metrics, and logs) for analysis to gain insights into your software's performance and behavior.

Dynatrace is a key contributor to this open source project. To learn more about Dynatrace OpenTelemetry support, see Send data to Dynatrace with OpenTelemetry.

Scenarios for OpenTelemetry metric ingestion

You can send metrics to Dynatrace via any of the following options:

• Via an OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) metrics exporter directly to Dynatrace
• Via an OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) metrics exporter to an OpenTelemetry Collector
• Via the Dynatrace OpenTelemetry metrics exporter directly to Dynatrace
• Via AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry