Mikko Viitanen

In May 2026, OpenTelemetry (OTel) officially graduated from Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This milestone marks the cloud native ecosystem’s achievement of production readiness and maturity, thanks to the efforts of hundreds of companies and thousands of developers who believed in an open standard for observability and built it together. OpenTelemetry was already the standard. Now it’s official.

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how to observe your collectors using Dynatrace Dashboards and highlight the valuable insights you can gain from their internal telemetry. Next, we’ll show you how to set up Davis® Anomaly Detection to continuously track your collectors. You’ll learn how to configure alerts that notify you of any deviations from healthy behavior, ensuring proactive issue detection and faster response times.

More organizations are adopting the OpenTelemetry observability standard in pursuit of a vendor-neutral solution to manual instrumentation, sending data to multiple vendors, and gaining insight into third-party services. But as most developers know, it’s the observability backend that reveals the value of your data and instrumentation strategy.