> If there’s anything that’s an absolute must in my Observability to-do list, it’s getting org-wide acceptance of OpenTelemetry (OTel) for data-collection.
OpenTelemetry exists to allow CTOs to tick boxes on requirements checklists, and help to get the CNCF technology stack into the F500 space. The project is textbook design by committee, with seemingly infinite scope but very little acknowledgement of the actual technical constraints of the problem space. It claims it can solve a lot of problems, but I can say from first hand experience that it does not, and cannot, deliver on those claims. It's not good. Nobody with a choice should be using it.
OpenTelemetry exists to allow CTOs to tick boxes on requirements checklists, and help to get the CNCF technology stack into the F500 space. The project is textbook design by committee, with seemingly infinite scope but very little acknowledgement of the actual technical constraints of the problem space. It claims it can solve a lot of problems, but I can say from first hand experience that it does not, and cannot, deliver on those claims. It's not good. Nobody with a choice should be using it.