Introducing a new technology on an organisation level, isn’t usually an easy task, that’s why its not uncommon for companies to end up using multiple tools that essentially do the same thing. Managing all these tools makes it hard to govern and prevents collaboration (with teams using different tools). In addition to this, these tools usually cost a small fortune (especially for small and midsize companies).
Until recently, there hasn’t been a good alternative to overcome these problems..
OpenTelemetry to the rescue
To help solve these problems, we can use this “new” phenomenon called OpenTelemetry.
Wait.. ANOTHER tool you may think? Well.. yes, but this one is different (I promise).
The OpenTelemetry project aims to provide a vendor agnostic way to instrument and collect your data. This means that we don’t require a propriety agent to run on our machines, this can now be handled by the SDKs/APIs and a collector from OpenTelemetry.