Elastic announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET, preconfigured for tracing, metrics, and logs, with OTLP exporter enabled by default.
Developers need to add a reference to the Elastic OpenTelemetry NuGet package to leverage the distribution, which includes a transitive dependency on the OpenTelemetry SDK.
The Elastic OpenTelemetry distribution overrides the default SDK registration, and it is essential to set environment variables like OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT and OTLP_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS for telemetry exporting.
The current alpha release aims to evaluate API design and usability. Elastic advises caution as it might not suit all application scenarios, emphasizing feature limitations.
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