Observability protocols define the specifications or formats for collecting, encoding, transporting, and delivering telemetry data between telemetry data sources, intermediate sources like collectors, and telemetry backends like third-party observability platforms. The following table breaks down some of the most popular observability protocols, including OTLP, Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin, and others.
Resources
- OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP)
- Prometheus
- StatsD
- OpenMetrics
- Jaeger
- Zipkin
- SysLog
- Fluent Forward
- SNMP
- sFlow
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