[ryan_lane]

This is one of the major benefits of open source. You can share engineering resources, even with your competitors, for things that aren't your bread & butter.

[lizthegrey]

Yup! In fact, we collaborate with Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Lightstep, et al on OpenTelemetry (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997275 / opentelemetry.io)