Datadog's commitment to OpenTelemetry and the open source community

This article details how to leverage Datadog APM to visualize and analyze runtime metrics collected from applications instrumented with OpenTelemetry (OTel). It explains how Datadog automatically ingests OTel data, enabling users to benefit from Datadog's powerful APM features like service maps, performance profiling, and alerting – all without code changes beyond the initial OTel instrumentation. Essentially, it showcases Datadog as a robust backend for observing OTel-generated telemetry data.