[idoco]

I see OpenTelemetry as an application of the same idea pushed by Google via the k8s revolution.

Create a great vendor-agnostic open source tech. Get everyone riled up about the dangers of vendor-locking solutions. Use the new tech to carve yourself a piece of the market from the current incumbent.

It is pretty great and all, but sometimes it is easier to build your app with a simple vendor-locked tech than a super generic agnostic technology.

[pm90]

I agree with this.

It’s kinda important to understand who all this is meant for. If you’re a lean startup just use the best/cheapest/quickest tool regardless of vendor lock in. It’s when you get to a certain scale that vendor agnosticism becomes a real concern, but by then you probably have enough resources to hire folks that will rebuild your stack.

[zihotki]

> It is pretty great and all, but sometimes it is easier to build your app with a simple vendor-locked tech than a super generic agnostic technology.

That's for sure golden. Until the product is bought over, or there was a merge of companies, or you name it. And then you end up with a pile of products with different vendor-locked log formats, metrics. At that point you'd like to get some standardization. And OpenTelemetry is a perfect candidate for common ground. Thus support of OpenTelemetry becomes a major decision factor when selecting a vendor or OSS solution for your problem, isn't it?