OpenTelemetry for ThingWorx Platform Logging
Logs observability gives holistic understanding of what's happening within its application environments.
From ThingWorx 9.6.0, OpenTelemetry is supported for ThingWorx Platform logging. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework and toolkit designed to create and manage telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. OpenTelemetry is vendor-agnostic and tool-agnostic, meaning it can be used with various backend observability.
OpenTelemetry is focused on the generation, collection, management, and export of telemetry. With OpenTelemetry, you can easily instrument your applications or systems, no matter their language, infrastructure, or runtime environment. Crucially, the storage and visualization of telemetry are intentionally left to other tools.
ThingWorx integrates with OpenTelemetry via two components:
• OpenTelemetry SDK – Integrated with ThingWorx Platform as part of installation.
• OpenTelemetry Collector - OpenTelemetry Collector acts as an intermediary between ThingWorx and any observability-backed tool. Collector can take care of batching, encryption, and sensitive data filtering.