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The problem with OpenTelemetry

I regularly complain about OpenTelemetry, so with an aim to be a less useless contributor, today I'm putting pen to paper. If you're an implementor, I ask you to read this and take away the personal bias you might have towards your work, and instead look objectively at the feedback being given.

A lot of others are the outcasts of the Datadogs, looking to bring their instrumentation to another partner who doesn’t want to middle finger them every quarter when the earnings calls come in. For a couple years now we’ve been experimenting with how to achieve this, how to support OpenTelemetry users, but without becoming yet another generic vendor who just accepts a log drain of junk data. What we don’t want is to be forced to implement some hopeful-standardized transport protocol that may or may not solve our concerns, let alone one that requires us to adopt legacy infrastructure telemetry like logs and metrics.

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