OpenTelemetry Ruby compatibility and requirements

This is what you need to instrument any Ruby application using the OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Ruby.

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: