At the recent Illuminate conference, Dave Sudia from GoSpotCheck shared the process that led them to choosing Sumo Logic for their observability needs.

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a new, vendor-agnostic agent that can receive and send metrics and traces of many formats. It is a powerful tool in a cloud-native observability stack, especially when you have apps using multiple distributed tracing formats, like Zipkin and Jaeger; or, you want to send data to multiple backends like an in-house solution and a vendor. This article will walk you through configuring and deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector for such scenarios.