> My other hope is that people will stop building new observability startups built on metrics. I mean, can you blame them? Metrics alone are: valuable and use

> My other hope is that people will stop building new observability startups built on metrics. I mean, can you blame them? Metrics alone are: valuable and useful, prom text format and remote write protocol is widely used, straightforward to implement and a much, much, much smaller slice than “the entirety of the OpenTelemetry spec”. Have you read those documents? Massive, sprawling, terminology for days, it’s confusingly written in places IMO. I know it’s trying to cover a lot of bases all at once (logs, traces AND metrics) and design accordingly to handle all of them properly, so it’s probably fine to deal with if you have large enough team, but that’s not everyone. To say nothing of the full adoption of opentelemetry data. Prometheus is far from my favourite bit of tech, but setting up scraping and a grafana dashboard is way less shenanigans than setting up open telemetry collection, and validating it’s all correct and present in my experience. If someone prefers to tackle a slice like metrics only and do it better than the whole hog, more power to them IMO.