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OTEL is a great concept with lots of potential. But current state of the project, reading about it just makes me dizzy. There are too many layers of indirectio
by Too 3y ago
OTEL is a great concept with lots of potential. But current state of the project, reading about it just makes me dizzy.
There are too many layers of indirections across the documentation, the specification, instrumentation libraries, collectors, protocols, backends, github issues, enhancement proposals, distributions, api vs sdk. Try to file an issue and you will be bounced betweeen at least three of them.
I get it, the idea is to be vendor agnostic. But the central hub needs to be a lot more refined. Especially the language instrumentation api don’t need to pretend they are independent of the central project.