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For Java, what's the advantage of using this library, versus directly using JMX? Are the abstractions better? I took a look at the documentation and it wasn't c
by svcrunch 6y ago
For Java, what's the advantage of using this library, versus directly using JMX? Are the abstractions better? I took a look at the documentation and it wasn't clear to me.
- jkwatson 6y agoMaintainer of the java implementation here. OpenTelemetry is really orthogonal to JMX. We're trying to provide a standard way to capture spans (traces) and metrics and send them to observability systems, both open source and vendor-provided. Those metrics might originate from JMX, or any other source of metrics you might have. Our APIs do provide a way to directly capture metrics, but also to hook into existing metric providers (like JMX or JFR).