OPENTELEMETRY-EDI-V2

CNCF-standard observability applied to EDI.

Definition

OpenTelemetry is a CNCF project (2019 merge of OpenCensus and OpenTracing). Three pillars: traces (spans propagated via W3C Trace Context), metrics (counters, histograms, gauges), logs. SDK Go, Java, Python, .NET, Node, Rust. Auto-instrumentation for AS2, Kafka, gRPC, MQ. OTLP exports to Datadog, Honeycomb, Grafana Tempo, Jaeger.

Origin

Merger May 2019, CNCF incubating 2019 then graduated 2024.

Example in context

An AS2 gateway propagates a W3C trace_id in the X-OTEL-Trace-Id header, observable end-to-end from AS2 receive to Kafka write.

Related terms

• SLI — OTel provides metrics.
• Runbook EDI — OTel feeds the diagnosis.