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Observability protocols to know about

CaitlinHalla
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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.

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