[Dextro]

I mean, when you're the one selling the gas to light that money on fire you have a vested interest in keeping it that way right?

I do agree that logging and spans are very similar, but I disagree that logs are just spans because they aren't exactly the same.

I also agree that you can collect all metrics from spans and, in fact, it might be a better way to tackle it. But it's just not feasible to do so monetarily so you do need to have some sort of collection step closer to the metric producers.

What I do agree with is that the terminology and the implementation of OTEL's SDK is incredibly confusing and hard to implement/keep up to date. I spent way too many hours of my career struggling with conflicting versions of OTEL so I know the pain and I desperately wish they would at least take to heart the idea of separating implementation from API.

[zeeg]

Food for thought- the subjective nature of both of those is exactly why it shouldn’t be bundled.