OpenTelemetry

Altertable can ingest OpenTelemetry logs and traces into a managed opentelemetry catalog.

Once enabled for an environment, traces and logs are written to normal SQL tables:

• opentelemetry.main.spans for trace spans, timing, status, attributes, events, and links.
• opentelemetry.main.logs for log bodies, severity, trace IDs, span IDs, and attributes.

From there you can query telemetry with SQL, build insights and dashboards, investigate issues with Ask AI, or connect Grafana for observability views backed by the lakehouse.

When to Use It

Use the OpenTelemetry catalog when you want to:

• analyze traces and logs with SQL
• correlate application behavior with product events or business data
• build dashboards over service-level signals
• give agents governed access to operational context during investigations

Altertable does not support OpenTelemetry metrics yet.