Swapping backend is huge when you consider it makes it fairly easy to run a local setup. One other nice thing about OTEL is the standardization. I can plugin 3

Swapping backend is huge when you consider it makes it fairly easy to run a local setup. One other nice thing about OTEL is the standardization. I can plugin 3rd party components and they'll seamlessly integrate with 1st party. For instance, you might add some load balancers and a data store. If these support OTEL, you can view latency they added in your normal traces.