Otel stuff always seems overly complicated to me, but it must just be the types of projects I generally work with. Feels like observability meets java.

I've dabbled in building a project that collects metrics from the logs for smaller projects. Everyone tells me it's a bad idea, but it seems to work well for me.

Open Telemetry is the XML of Observability, and is providing the same value XML did when it was first introduced: interoperability.

Eventually it'll have successors that are better in some way, more efficient, or whatever, but right now there are no alternatives at all. Open Telemetry is the first common standard that multiple vendors have signed up to.

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