[hagen1778]

I think OTEL has made things worse for metrics. Prometheus was so simple and clean before the long journey toward OTEL support began. Now Prometheus is much more complicated:

- all the delta-vs-cumulative counter confusion

- push support for Prometheus, and the resulting out-of-order errors

- the {"metric_name"} syntax changes in PromQL

- resource attributes and the new info() function needed to join them

I just don’t see how any of these OTEL requirements make my day-to-day monitoring tasks easier. Everything has only become more complicated.

And I haven’t even mentioned the cognitive and resource cost everyone pays just to ship metrics in the OTEL format - see https://promlabs.com/blog/2025/07/17/why-i-recommend-native-...