---
title: Elastic OpenTelemetry compatibility and support
description: Compatibility and support levels for different OpenTelemetry Distributions.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/compatibility
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector
  - Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry SDK
  - Elastic Observability
applies_to:
  - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Elastic OpenTelemetry compatibility and support
The following pages describe the compatibility and support levels for different OpenTelemetry Distributions.
- [Features](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/compatibility/features)
- [Collectors](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/compatibility/collectors)
- [SDKs](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/compatibility/sdks)
- [Elastic OpenTelemetry compared to upstream](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/compatibility/edot-vs-upstream)
- [Limitations](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/compatibility/limitations)
- [Nomenclature](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/compatibility/nomenclature)
- [Data streams comparison](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/compatibility/data-streams)