[podoman]

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of an observability company (Highlight.io).

OpenTelemetry has been INCREDIBLY valuable to us. Not only has it made it super fast to build out SDKs for our customers, but the fact that its maintained actively gives us confidence that we're rolling out stable logic to customers' environments.

I agree with the author that OpenTelemetry has succeeded, and its pretty obvious from the fact that most major observability vendors support.

In short, to a developer it may not seem like its particularly valuable because a metrics/logs/traces API is quite simple whether or not you use OTEL. But the fact that this is an industry wide spec is where it becomes powerful.

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[m1keil]

It's quite understandable that a "o11y protocol" is very valuable to a o11y service provider (especially the smaller ones) since it reduces the cost of vendor swap.