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. These investments include plans to retrofit the Azure Monitor ingress and all our Azure SDKs to use OTLP for traces and metrics, making it possible to use any language OpenTelemetry supports on Azure. The “Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro” is your one-stop-shop to power Azure Monitor. While we are currently focused on lighting up Application Insights, we plan to expand this distro to cover other scenarios within Azure Monitor in the future, such as piping special purpose logs/events to your own custom-defined table in Log Analytics.
