Our goal is to make Azure the most observable cloud. To that end, we are refactoring Azure’s native observability platform to be based on OpenTelemetry, an industry standard for instrumenting applications and transmitting telemetry. Microsoft decided to take a bet on OpenTelemetry in 2019. We are among the top contributors to OpenTelemetry. Initially, our motivation was to converge fragmented telemetry instrumentation across Microso
