[phillipcarter]

OTel logs are just your existing logs, though. If you have a way to say "whoopsie it hung" then this doesn't need to be tied to a trace at all. The only tying to a trace that occurs is when there's active span/trace in context, at which point the SDK or agent you use will wrap the log body in that span/trace ID. Export of logs is independent of trace export and will be in separate batches.

Edit: I see you're a major Rust user! That perhaps changes things. Most users of OTel are in Java, .NET, Node, Python, and Go. OTel is nowhere near as developed in Rust as it is for these languages. So I don't doubt you've run into issues with OTel for your purposes.