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OpenTelemetry Ruby compatibility and requirements 🔗

Meet these requirements to instrument Ruby applications for Splunk Observability Cloud.

Supported libraries and frameworks 🔗

The OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Ruby instruments numerous libraries and packages. For a complete list, see Supported libraries in the OpenTelemetry documentation.

Ensure you have supported Ruby and library versions 🔗

The OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Ruby is compatible with Ruby 3.0 and higher.

Install and configure the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Ruby exports application traces and spans to the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, which also collects system metric data and logs.

To send application traces and spans to Splunk Observability Cloud, install the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector for your platform. The following distributions are available: