During times of economic uncertainty, companies can often find themselves having to do more with less. Whether they’re facing reduced spending, heightened customer expectations, or fiercer competition, organizations need to embrace nimble and cost-effective approaches to remain resilient. One such way to harness operational resiliency and reduce costs is through Opentelemetry.So, what is OpenTelemetry, and how can it save your company money?OpenTelemetry provides a standardized, vendor-neutral way for organizations to collect telemetry data from Cloud Native Applications and infrastructure so that it can be sent to any destination for processing and analytics. It includes the agents, SDKs, protocol, and semantic conventions required to capture distributed traces, metrics, logs, and other critical signals.By offering a unified approach to telemetry data collection, Otel makes it easier for organizations to integrate and share data across different systems. This, in turn, helps organizations improve their application performance, Reduce Operational Costs, speed up development, improve reliability and simplify the management of telemetry data.And many are seeing the value in OpenTelemetry. It is the second most active project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, after Kubernetes. The project’s origin story began in 2019 when two open source projects (OpenCensus and OpenTracing) merged to create OpenTelemetry to instill one standard. The goal was to create a unified, vendor-neutral approach to observability, so developers can instrument and collect telemetry data across different programming languages and platforms. Since its creation, OpenTelemetry has rapidly evolved, with regular releases to improve its capabilities and expand its support across different platforms and environments. Today, it’s a popular tool in the observability space, with a robust community of 900 monthly-active contributors.But while OpenTelemetry’s primary value is to help organizations reduce the complexity of managing telemetry data in their cloud native applications, it can also decrease the cost of monitoring, optimize cloud computing budgets, and improve resource utilization, reliability, and application performance.Let’s dive into how OpenTelemetry can do all of this below, by outlining four key ways it can help save your business money:OpenTelemetry lets you truly own your own data and in turn allows you to make your organization more agile, more resilient to failure and less beholden to vendors and potential security threats. It offers a standardized, cost-effective, and flexible approach to data collection that can help businesses reduce operational costs and improve application performance. Embracing OpenTelemetry today helps to future-proof your business for tomorrow, and beyond.Community created roadmaps, articles, resources and journeys fordevelopers to help you choose your path and grow in your career.