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> New Relic did this for the Rails revolution, Datadog did it for the rise of AWS, and Honeycomb led the way for OpenTelemetry. I find this reading of history
by heinrichhartman 1y ago
> New Relic did this for the Rails revolution, Datadog did it for the rise of AWS, and Honeycomb led the way for OpenTelemetry.
I find this reading of history of OTel highly biased. OpenTelemetry was born as the Merge of OpenCensus (initiated by Google) and OpenTracing (initiated by LightStep):
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/05/opentelemetry-merger-of-opencensus-and.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/05/opentelemetry-merg...
> The seed governance committee is composed of representatives from Google, Lightstep, Microsoft, and Uber, and more organizations are getting involved every day.
Honeycomb has for sure had valuable code & community contributions and championed the technology adoption, but they are very far from "leading the way".
- loevborg 1y agoAs someone who recently adopted Honeycomb, it really is an amazing tool. Especially with otel auto-instrumentation, you get insights within a few hours. The dashboard / query features are very powerful and obviously stem from a deep philosophical understanding of observability. My team was shocked at how good the tools is. Datadog by contrast seems to be driven by marketing and companies having a "observability" checkbox to tick.