Mobile app observability company Embrace announced that its native iOS and Android SDKs are now built on OpenTelemetry. The open-source, enterprise-supported SDKs combine Embrace’s unique insights into mobile user experiences with transparent, portable, and extensible data collection.
This launch pairs Embrace’s view on modeling user behavior with OpenTelemetry to better contextualize telemetry for user sessions. Engineers benefit from full visibility into mobile user experiences so they can resolve critical performance issues before they become widespread. With this release, anyone can use Embrace’s iOS and Android SDKs to send logs and spans to any OTLP capable tracing and logging backend, with metrics support soon to follow. Tutorials, documentation, and additional details can be found on Embrace’s OpenTelemetry page.
“It’s exciting to see participation in OpenTelemetry from a vendor like Embrace who is focused on user experience,” said Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry Governing Board Member. “Evolving the OTel specification to better capture telemetry for client applications will ultimately raise the bar for what’s possible with mobile app observability.”
Modernizing Observability for Mobile App Engineering Teams Requires a New Approach
Mobile is ubiquitous today, driving valuable consumer transactions and engagement. Yet most teams haven’t modernized the way they drive performance improvements, prevent issues, and integrate insights from their user-facing footprint into their observability practice. Legacy real user monitoring (RUM), error and bug tracking, and crash reporting tools have proven to be inadequate for the challenges facing mobile teams. Server-side teams are managing to 99.98%+ SLAs, while mobile teams manage the user experience through a few simplistic metrics and highly sampled datasets.
Embrace collects the full technical and behavioral details of every user session, providing engineers with the necessary context to identify and resolve issues quickly. With this OTel solution, customers can also extend instrumentation to any custom library in their app and leverage Embrace’s platform to contextualize the added instrumentation. This empowers engineers to explore insights and expedite issue resolution. Additionally, Embrace’s instrumentation is compatible with any OTel backend, offering flexibility and ease of integration.
“We want to serve the thousands of engineers building incredible mobile apps that people rely on every day, and we look forward to the community collaboration that will come with shipping open-source, standards-based SDKs,” said Andrew Tunall, Chief Product Officer at Embrace. “We want to advance how the community thinks about modeling both programmatic and human-driven behavior in mobile apps. By standardizing mobile data collection and instrumentation through OTel, we can help engineers move faster and understand their valuable users.”
SOURCE: PRNewswire