OpenTelemetry Foundations: Back to Basics — What Is a Signal? (Part 1)
OpenTelemetry isn’t magic—it’s just structured data objects. Part 1 demystifies OTel signals: spans for request timelines, metrics for trends and SLOs, logs for context. Learn about attributes vs events, histogram buckets, cardinality traps, and the unified context that ties it all together.
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