[cowgoesmoo]

Meh, I work in metrics observability and there's very little support for otel. Most new open source products are still based on Prometheus, which has much better SDK support than otel.

I think it's a mistake for Otel to do its own thing instead of just building on top of Prometheus.

[MuffinFlavored]

Where it gets confusing:

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/otlp/send-d...

[hinkley]

I don’t agree with the communication patterns of either Prometheus or OpenTelemetry, but I’ll pick Prometheus next time I have to do telemetry. Unless there’s some fork of StatsD with tags that makes a resurgence.

[wdb]

Prometheus supports the OTLP format

[hinkley]

But OTLP is still hot garbage right now. If you send otlp to Prometheus it might get there, or it might all end up being dropped by a parsing error, because otelcollector is dumber than a box of hammers that have been through a rock tumbler.