The OpenTelemetry exporter is a new XorMon v2.4.0 feature that exports performance and configuration data as OpenTelemetry-compliant metrics via the OTLP HTTP protocol.
With a single configuration object, it connects XorMon as a data source to any OTLP-compatible backend like Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, Datadog, Elasticsearch, VictoriaMetrics, and more.

What Is OpenTelemetry, and Why Should You Care?

OpenTelemetry (often abbreviated as OTel) is an open source observability framework maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It provides a vendor neutral standard for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data: metrics, traces, and logs.

Think of it as a universal language for observability. Instead of writing separate integrations for every backend you want to use, you instrument once using the OpenTelemetry standard and export to any compatible destination. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Elastic, Splunk, New Relic, Dynatrace, OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics: they all speak OTel.

OpenTelemetry has become the default data layer for modern observability. Major cloud providers support it natively. Every significant monitoring and observability vendor accepts OTLP data. For infrastructure monitoring tools like XorMon, supporting OpenTelemetry is no longer a nice to have. It is essential for staying relevant in a world where teams expect their tools to work together seamlessly.

What the OpenTelemetry Exporter Does?

It is feature that takes already saved the performance data and exports it as OpenTelemetry compliant metrics via the OTLP HTTP protocol.

Here’s what that means in practice: every time XorMon runs a check and receives performance data (CPU load, disk usage, network throughput, latency, whatever ...), that data is being sent into properly structured OpenTelemetry metrics to any OTLP compatible and configured endpoint.

Suported OpenTelemetry solutions

Graphana is tested so far only.
Rest of OTLP-compatible toolos like Prometheus, Datadog, Elasticsearch, VictoriaMetrics and others can be easilly added as per a user request.

How to Enable It

TBD ...

XorMon licensing

This feature is available in the product trial period and for our customers having support only.