React Native developers rejoice! Embrace's React Native SDK is open source and now fully OpenTelemetry-compliant. So you'll get best-in-class, flexible tooling to monitor your React Native apps while still adhering to OTel data standards. You can even use the SDK to send out telemetry to any OTLP-HTTP endpoint without going through the Embrace backend or platform at all!
We’re excited to announce that the Embrace React Native SDK is now fully built on OpenTelemetry (OTel)! This major update brings a host of new features, improvements, and flexibility to mobile observability for React Native users who prioritize the OpenTelemetry standard.
This release focuses on aligning the React Native SDK with OpenTelemetry standards, offering a more powerful and versatile solution for our React Native users.
The React Native SDK is now fully shifted to Open telemetry, with all collected data now being sent to the backend as OTel signals. Prior to this, Embrace’s React Native SDK had significant OTel, as it was built on top of the Android and iOS SDKs. However, the SDK was not exposing OTel concepts at the JavaScript layer. Now, users can:
You can now export traces and logs directly to non-Embrace OTLP endpoints without needing an Embrace application or ID. That means that the React Native open source community can access the monitoring capabilities of Embrace without needing to be customers of ours or sending data through our backend at all. Simply download and integrate the SDK and then set up exports to another OTLP-HTTP backend directly from JavaScript.
The updated React Native SDK allows engineers to access Embrace’s exposed OTel tracer provider and use it to collect telemetry from any OTel compliant instrumentation library. This mechanism lets engineers create custom traces to monitor user flows, giving them critical insight into end-to-end user experiences.
As part of this change, we’ve also re-written our own internal instrumentation libraries for navigation and Redux to work with any OTel compliant tracer providers, rather than just Embrace-specific APIs. This allows us to contribute them back to the open source community and invites others to use the Embrace SDK largely without barriers.
In addition to the shift to OpenTelemetry, this release includes:
We’re confident that these changes will provide engineers with a more powerful, flexible, and maintainable solution monitoring their React Native app. To check out these new capabilities for yourself, head over to our docs site and upgrade to the latest version of the Embrace React Native SDK.
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