[heinrichhartman]

> New Relic did this for the Rails revolution, Datadog did it for the rise of AWS, and Honeycomb led the way for OpenTelemetry.

I find this reading of history of OTel highly biased. OpenTelemetry was born as the Merge of OpenCensus (initiated by Google) and OpenTracing (initiated by LightStep):

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/05/opentelemetry-merg...

> The seed governance committee is composed of representatives from Google, Lightstep, Microsoft, and Uber, and more organizations are getting involved every day.

Honeycomb has for sure had valuable code & community contributions and championed the technology adoption, but they are very far from "leading the way".

[loevborg]

As someone who recently adopted Honeycomb, it really is an amazing tool. Especially with otel auto-instrumentation, you get insights within a few hours. The dashboard / query features are very powerful and obviously stem from a deep philosophical understanding of observability. My team was shocked at how good the tools is.

Datadog by contrast seems to be driven by marketing and companies having a "observability" checkbox to tick.

[ayewo]

Which programming languages are you using with the OTel auto-instrumentation feature?

[loevborg]

Node and Python. It's amazing how much works out of the box - express routes, http queries, dns queries, the list goes on