OTEL is a set of interfaces, so I’m not sure your last point applies. I do agree that battle tested things like Prometheus work great, but why not have a set of

OTEL is a set of interfaces, so I’m not sure your last point applies. I do agree that battle tested things like Prometheus work great, but why not have a set of standardized interfaces? There is clearly a cost to having them; for some projects this may be too much. For the projects I’ve used it in it let me spin up all the traces and telemetry without thinking hard.