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title: "Hire OpenTelemetry Engineers for Vendor-Neutral Tracing"
description: "OpenTelemetry engineers who instrument your services once so you can swap backends later. Remote DevOps specialists from Thailand, fee fixed in the proposal."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/opentelemetry/"
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# OpenTelemetry specialists for your dedicated team.

OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral standard and toolkit for generating traces, metrics and logs. Applications instrument once against the standard and export to whichever backend the organisation uses, without changing application code to switch.

## Where OpenTelemetry fits in a long-term product team.

Instrumentation is the expensive, long-lived part of observability; backends are the part organisations change. Instrumenting against a vendor SDK ties years of work to a commercial decision, and re-instrumenting an estate to change vendor is a project few teams want to fund. OpenTelemetry decouples the two.

Auto-instrumentation gives a useful baseline quickly, with HTTP, database and framework spans and no code changes, but it does not know your domain. The spans and attributes that answer business questions, like which tenant or which plan a slow request belonged to, have to be added deliberately.

## What your dedicated team does with OpenTelemetry.

The collector is where most of the operational work sits. Sampling, filtering, enrichment and routing all happen there, so it needs sizing and monitoring like any other production component.

Running it properly is ongoing platform work, handled by your [dedicated cloud and DevOps team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/) alongside the services it observes.

## Common OpenTelemetry use cases.

* Instrumentation that outlives the vendor One standard, so changing backend is a configuration change.
* A baseline without code changes Auto-instrumentation for framework and database spans, in place quickly.
* Domain attributes that answer real questions Tenant and plan on spans, so "slow for whom" is answerable.

## Adding OpenTelemetry skills to your team.

Instrumentation outlives both the people who wrote it and the vendors it reports to, which is why continuity on the platform side matters. That is what a [dedicated development team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/) is for.

Every OpenTelemetry specialist we assign works remotely inside your tools as a dedicated member of your team, with the management on our side. It is how companies hire remote developers without opening an offshore office of their own.

## Roles that use OpenTelemetry

* [Site Reliability Engineer Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/site-reliability-engineer/)

## Service areas that use OpenTelemetry

* [Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/)

Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill.

## Related in observability

* [SLO and error budget design, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/slo-and-error-budget-design/)
* [Prometheus, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/prometheus/)
* [CloudWatch, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/cloudwatch/)
* [PagerDuty, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/pagerduty/)
* [Observability, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/observability/)
* [Sentry, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/sentry/)
* [Logging, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/logging/)
* [audit logging, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/audit-logging/)

## Tell us what you need OpenTelemetry for.

A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

[Browse all skills](https://azendo.co/skills/)