This page introduces the concept of instrumentation in OpenTelemetry™.

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Instrumentation is the act of making an application service observable by enabling the code from the system’s components to emit traces, metrics, and logs. You must instrument your applications in order to monitor them with Cisco Cloud Observability.

You can manually instrument your applications by modifying the source code using OpenTelemetry-provided APIs and SDKs, or automatically instrument your applications at runtime using an instrumentation agent instead of modifying the source code. Availability of automatic instrumentation may vary depending on the language.

To learn how to instrument your applications and view language-specific instrumentation details, see OpenTelemetry Instrumentation.

Splunk AppDynamics does not provide its own versions or redistribute open-source versions of OpenTelemetry SDKs and instrumentation agents. We recommend using the official OpenTelemetry SDKs and instrumentation agents to instrument your applications.

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