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0 pointspranay012y ago0 comments

I think that OpenTelemetry will solve this problem of vendor lock in. I am a founder building in this space[1] and we see many of our users switching to opentelemetry as that provides an easy way to switch if needed in future.

At SigNoz, we have metrics, traces and logs in a single application which helps you correlate across signals much more easily - and being natively based on opentelemetry makes this correlation much easier as it leverages the standard data format.

Though this might take sometime, as many teams have proprietary SDK in their code, which is not easy to rip out. Opentelemetry auto-instrumentation[2] makes it much easier, and I think that's the path people will follow to get started

[1]https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz [2]https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/java/automatic...

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sofixa2y ago

Switch the backend destination of metrics/traces/logs, but all your dashboards, alerts, and potentially legacy data still need to be migrated. Drastically better than before where instrumentation and agents were custom for each backend, but there's still hurdles.

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0 pointspranay012y ago0 comments

[1]https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz [2]https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/java/automatic...

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