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OpenTelemetry is an
OpenTelemetry is:

* An
[Observability](/docs/concepts/observability-primer/#what-is-observability)
framework and toolkit designed to create and manage telemetry data such as
[traces](/docs/concepts/signals/traces/),
[metrics](/docs/concepts/signals/metrics/), and
[logs](/docs/concepts/signals/logs/). Crucially, OpenTelemetry is vendor- and
[logs](/docs/concepts/signals/logs/).
* Vendor- and
tool-agnostic, meaning that it can be used with a broad variety of Observability
backends, including open source tools like
[Jaeger](https://www.jaegertracing.io/) and
[Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/), as well as commercial offerings.

OpenTelemetry is not an observability backend like Jaeger, Prometheus, or other
commercial vendors. OpenTelemetry is focused on the generation, collection,
* Not an observability backend like Jaeger, Prometheus, or other
commercial vendors.
* Focused on the generation, collection,
management, and export of telemetry. A major goal of OpenTelemetry is that you
can easily instrument your applications or systems, no matter their language,
infrastructure, or runtime environment. Crucially, the storage and visualization
infrastructure, or runtime environment. The storage and visualization
of telemetry is intentionally left to other tools.

## What is observability?
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