If you’ve been following OpenTelemetry for a while, you’ve probably heard a lot about logs. Log bridges, Logs API, events, you name it, we’ve talked about it. This blog post is intended to be a discussion of the rationale and current design direction of logging in OpenTelemetry. Definitions Let’s get started with a basic definition of how OpenTelemetry thinks about logs. Broadly, logs are any telemetry that is emitted through a log pipeline, and are created by calling the Logs API. Th...
