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Meh, I work in metrics observability and there's very little support for otel. Most new open source products are still based on Prometheus, which has much bette
by cowgoesmoo 3y ago
Meh, I work in metrics observability and there's very little support for otel. Most new open source products are still based on Prometheus, which has much better SDK support than otel.
I think it's a mistake for Otel to do its own thing instead of just building on top of Prometheus.
- MuffinFlavored 3y agoWhere it gets confusing: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/otlp/send-data-otlp/ https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/otlp/send-d...
- wdb 3y agoPrometheus supports the OTLP format
- hinkley 3y agoBut OTLP is still hot garbage right now. If you send otlp to Prometheus it might get there, or it might all end up being dropped by a parsing error, because otelcollector is dumber than a box of hammers that have been through a rock tumbler.
- hinkley 3y agoI don’t agree with the communication patterns of either Prometheus or OpenTelemetry, but I’ll pick Prometheus next time I have to do telemetry. Unless there’s some fork of StatsD with tags that makes a resurgence.