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OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics

Last modified: 17 June 2024

OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs, SDKs, and tools designed to let you create applications that can easily export tracing, metrics, and logs. The OpenTelemetry API provides a single set of APIs for distributed tracing and metrics instrumentation that automatically collects the data and sends it to the backend of your choice.

The OpenTelemetry statistics implemented in IntelliJ IDEA includes traces and metrics. Tracer creates spans representing activities. Metrics include counters and gauges. For more information, refer to the OpenTelemetry documentation.

You can enable OpenTelemetry using the idea.properties file.