KCNA Cloud Native Observability Practice Question
What is the main advantage of using OpenTelemetry over vendor-specific instrumentation libraries?
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Why each option matters
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It provides a single, vendor-agnostic instrumentation standard
OpenTelemetry provides a unified standard that avoids vendor lock-in, allowing data to be sent to any backend.
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It provides a single, vendor-agnostic instrumentation standard
Why this is correct
OpenTelemetry is an open standard that works with multiple backends.
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It eliminates the need for logging
Why it's wrong here
OpenTelemetry focuses on traces and metrics, not eliminating logs.
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It automatically reduces latency
Why it's wrong here
OpenTelemetry does not reduce latency inherently.
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It is the only tool that supports traces
Why it's wrong here
Other tools like Jaeger also support traces.
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