Dynatrace is announcing the Dynatrace OTel Collector distribution, an OpenTelemetry Collector with components that are fully tested, reliable, secure, and supported for use in production and enterprise-scale environments. OpenTelemetry provides a flexible, standardized way to collect telemetry data, and its adoption is growing. The Dynatrace OTel Collector distribution hardens OpenTelemetry functions for organizations that need to maintain high-reliability service-level agreements. The Dynatrace OTel Collector is free and available to everyone. Dynatrace donates bug fixes and enhancements back to the OpenTelemetry project and provides full support for customers.

OpenTelemetry standardizes how organizations instrument, generate, and collect telemetry data for analysis and provides community-based support. Because of its flexibility, this open source approach to instrumenting and collecting telemetry data is becoming increasingly important in large-size organizations. But rigorous requirements for security, production readiness, scalability, and reliability can make adopting OpenTelemetry challenging for teams to maintain at enterprise scale.

To meet these requirements, Dynatrace has released its OpenTelemetry Collector distribution (Dynatrace OTel Collector), providing users with a fully tested, secure, and reliable OpenTelemetry collector for production and enterprise-scale environments. The distribution is fully supported for Dynatrace customers at standard and premium levels