> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.odigos.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

Odigos is an observability control plane. Odigos leverages the power of [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io) and [eBPF](https://ebpf.io) to automatically instrument applications.

Odigos automatically deploys and scales collectors according to the traffic of applications. No need to waste time deploying and configuring collectors.

<Tip>
  The name Odigos originates from Greek, meaning "guide".
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## Goals

* **Automatic instrumentation** - Odigos automatically instruments your applications and produces distributed traces and metrics **without any code changes**.
* **Collector management** - Odigos automatically deploys and scales collectors according to application traffic. No need to spend time deploying and configuring collectors.

Odigos achieves its goals by deploying a set of components that work together to collect, process, and export telemetry data.

## Who is Odigos for?

* Software Developers
* Platform Engineers
* IT Professionals
* Anyone comfortable with command-line interfaces and basic cloud infrastructure

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  Odigos is designed to be easy to use and deploy. It is a great tool for anyone who wants to get started with observability without the hassle of setting up and managing collectors.
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## Adopt OpenTelemetry in minutes

Odigos currently supports all the popular managed and open source [destinations](./backends-overview). By producing data in the [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io) format, Odigos can be used with any observability tool that supports OTLP and allow you to easily switch to another vendor in the future.

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  <Card title="Getting Started" icon="circle-play" href="./quickstart/introduction">
    Use Odigos to generate distributed traces, metrics and logs with OpenTelemetry.
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  <Card title="Telemetry Types" icon="telescope" href="./telemetry-types">
    Telemetry types that Odigos supports and produce.
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  <Card title="Supported Languages" icon="code" href="./instrumentations/overview">
    Programming languages that Odigos supports and applies auto-instrumentation to.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Supported Destinations" icon="signal-stream" href="./adding-new-dest">
    Destinations that Odigos supports and sends telemetry data to.
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