There's a class of control plane startups that specialize in shaping/dropping observability data points (Honeycomb, Signoz, ChronoSphere) to both focus the resu

There's a class of control plane startups that specialize in shaping/dropping observability data points (Honeycomb, Signoz, ChronoSphere) to both focus the results and reduce ingest/storage costs. OTel can do this independent of providers at the collector, for better (all downstream tooling benefits) and worse (with considerable fussiness and bespoke config).