KCNA Cloud Native Observability Practice Question
Which open-source project provides a unified standard for collecting and exporting telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) from applications?
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Why each option matters
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OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the industry standard for observability data collection and export, providing vendor-agnostic instrumentation.
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Prometheus
Why it's wrong here
Prometheus focuses on metrics only.
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OpenTelemetry
Why this is correct
Correct. OpenTelemetry is a unified standard for metrics, logs, and traces.
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Jaeger
Why it's wrong here
Jaeger is a tracing backend.
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Fluentd
Why it's wrong here
Fluentd is a log collector.
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