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nikmd231on OpenCensus – Vendor-agnostic libraries to provide metrics collection and tracing

The APIs themselves are pretty similar. The biggest difference is in the scope/goals of the projects.

OT defines an API that various tracers can implement while OC ships a single implementation that tracing vendors can export data from.

OT is focused on traces, OC aims to support move observability signals. Traces and stats are available today. Logs and error tracking are on the roadmap.

There’s a few other differences, but those are the main ones.

nikmd231on OpenCensus – Vendor-agnostic libraries to provide metrics collection and tracing

Exactly.

nikmd231on OpenCensus – Vendor-agnostic libraries to provide metrics collection and tracing

There is! We’ll have an agent/sidecar available soon that means any exporter can be written in Go and only Go.

nikmd231on OpenCensus – Vendor-agnostic libraries to provide metrics collection and tracing

One of the contributors to OpenCensus here - feel free to ask any questions!