Telemetry

As explained in Logs and Telemetry

Telemetry data is machine-generated information about software or infrastructure behavior, including logs, metrics, and traces.

Telemetry is machine-generated observability data describing software or infrastructure behavior. Its main forms are logs, metrics, and traces, which can be gathered, transformed, transmitted, aggregated, and analyzed across distributed systems. section 1.3.2

Telemetry participates in an operational data flow:

• Applications generate logs, metrics, and traces. section 1.3.2
• Collectors gather data from different sources and transform it into a common OTLP structure. section 1.3.2
• OTLP defines telemetry data structures, encoding, and transmission through gRPC with HTTP/2, Protocol Buffers, or JSON. section 1.3.2
• Exporters route telemetry to compatible collectors, observability services, or analysis tools. section 1.3.2

Figure 1.3 Fluent Bit’s relationship with OpenTelemetry with apps generating OTel logs, metrics, and traces and Fluent Bit facilitating their transmission to an OTel-compliant point of aggregation or processing. Applications can send OTLP data directly or via an OTel component, and we can route data to other OTel services or analysis tools.

Trace the flow from applications producing logs, metrics, and traces through Fluent Bit to an OpenTelemetry-compatible aggregation or processing point. section 1.3.2

How Logs and Telemetry covers it

How deep it goes

Defines telemetry forms and follows collection, transformation, encoding, transmission, and routing, without detailing individual payload schemas.

Examples

Illustrates application-generated logs, metrics, and traces flowing through Fluent Bit to compatible collectors or analysis tools.

What you can do after

Evaluate how telemetry moves from applications through collectors and exporters using OTLP-compatible transports.

How it connects

Connects OpenTelemetry, OTLP, Fluent Bit, Prometheus, Grafana, collectors, exporters, logs, metrics, and traces.

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Related concepts

• observabilityused by · Observability is the ability to infer a system’s internal state and behavior from its externally available outputs, such as logs, metrics, and traces.
• trajectoryhas part · A trajectory is an ordered sequence of states, actions, events, or operations that records or describes progression through successive steps or over time.
• instrumentationproduced by · Instrumentation is the addition or activation of mechanisms in software or systems to observe, measure, or record their behavior during execution.
• monitoringincludes · Monitoring is the ongoing observation and measurement of a system’s behavior, state, or operational signals to assess its condition and detect changes or problems.
• OpenTelemetryproduced by · OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral observability standard and framework for instrumenting software and generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry such as traces, metrics, and logs.
• metrichas part · A metric is a quantitative measure used to characterize or assess a property, condition, behavior, performance, or outcome.

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