> The main feature of OTEL is the tagging, but Amazon charges you for using it. So much so that we had to impoverish our tags until they provided only a small f

> The main feature of OTEL is the tagging, but Amazon charges you for using it. So much so that we had to impoverish our tags until they provided only a small factor of improvement in observability that was ultimately not worth the cost of migration. If I had straight ported, we would have generated about 40x as much traffic as we got to in the end by cutting corners. This bit is really unfortunate. Hopefully not too unhelpful, but there are several other vendors out there that don't limit you like this. Other tradeoffs to be sure (no such thing as a perfect o11y tool), but I think most dedicated observability backends have moved away from this kind of pricing structure.