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OpenCensus is a Google project to standardize metrics and distributed tracing. It's an API spec and libraries for various languages with varying backend support
by manigandham 7y ago
OpenCensus is a Google project to standardize metrics and distributed tracing. It's an API spec and libraries for various languages with varying backend support.
OpenTracing is a CNCF project as an API for distributed tracing with a separate project called OpenMetrics for the metrics API. Neither include libraries and rely on the community to provide them.
The industry decided for once that we don't need all this competing work and is consolidating everything into OpenTelemetry that combines an API for tracing and metrics along with libraries. Logs (the 3rd part of observability) are in the planning phase.
OpenCensus Web is bringing the tracing/metrics part to your frontend JS so you can measure how your webapp works in addition to your backend apps and services.