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Application Observability production setup
For production setups for Application Observability, use a data collector.
Note
For a quick and easy local development setup, consult the quickstart documentation.
Follow the production setup guides for:
For other languages, use the upstream OpenTelemetry SDKs supported by the community.
Why should you use Beyla?
- Easy: No need to modify or redeploy your application.
- Legacy support: The language or language version is not supported by current OpenTelemetry SDKs.
- Third-party application: You want to instrument third-party applications (Apache, Nginx…)
- Performance: Your instrumentation libraries have too much impact in the performance of your applications (e.g. some Python high-load services)
Note
Beyla does not have the same capabilities as the OpenTelemetry SDKs. For example, Beyla only supports trace context propagation in Go (and in some limited cases for non-Go programs); so in most cases it only creates a single span for each non-Go service.
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