[serverlessmom]

Something I mention any time I'm introducing OpenTelemetry is that it's an unfinished project, a huge piece being the unifying abstractions between those signals.

In part this is a very practical decision: most people already have pretty good tools for their logs, and have struggled to get tracing working. So it's better to work on tools for measuring and sending traces, and just let people export their current log stream via the OpenTelemetry collector.

Notably the OTel docs acknowledge this mismatch between current implementation and design goals: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/logs/#limitations-o...