[dan-allen]

I keep checking in on OpenTelemetry every few months to see if the bits we need are stable yet. There’s been very little progress on the things we’re waiting for.

I don’t follow closely enough to comment on possible causes.

What I do know is that the surface area of code and infrastructure that telemetry touches means adopting something unfinished is a big leap of faith.

[phillipcarter]

What pieces are you looking to be stable (and what's your definition of stable)?

Asking because some pieces, like the Collector, aren't technically a stable 1.0 yet, but the bar for stability is extremely high, and in practice it's far more stable than most software out there.

But there are other pieces, such as a language's support for a specific concept, that are truly experimental or even still in-development.

[pdimitar]

IMO you might be looking at the wrong signals, OTel is quite successful today and I had zero breakages or compatibility problems for at least 2 years at this point.