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toran vs OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry is an open standard for collecting traces, metrics, and logs. Teams use it to instrument applications and export observability data to backends like Datadog, New Relic, or Prometheus.
What OpenTelemetry is good at
- ✓Standardized instrumentation across languages and runtimes
- ✓Collecting traces, metrics, and logs from applications and services
- ✓Vendor-neutral observability pipelines
- ✓Long-term monitoring and performance analysis
Where it falls short for request inspection
- △Requires SDKs, agents, or instrumentation in application code
- △Does not capture exact HTTP requests and responses as sent on the wire by default
- △Focuses on aggregated signals rather than individual third-party API calls
How toran is different
- →toran observes outbound HTTP requests at the transport layer
- →Shows exact requests and responses without SDKs or code changes
- →Designed for debugging and understanding third-party API behavior
- →Read-only by design: no alerts, automation, retries, or policy enforcement
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Quick decision rule
Use OpenTelemetry to instrument applications and feed observability data into monitoring backends. Use toran when you need to see exactly what HTTP requests and responses your application or agent is making to third-party APIs.
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