[elthor89]

We are running opentelemetry collector in production for about a year now.

Overal I am very happy with it. I would recommend it.

Good: - I like that with Otel you can build a vendor agnostic architecture. By that I mean you could easily swap visualization tool and you are not depending on a vendors own agent. - It works. - lots of plugins, receivers, processors and exporters. - run it as deployment or run it also as agent you can get k8 metrics.

Cons: - Documentation can be improved. There is the website and then is their GitHub repo. To me it feels like the website only explains the architecture and some components, but to implement it you need to read the readme and values.yml in the GitHub repo from the various receivers and exporters. - for some it this might be a con. It doesn’t have a ui. Like Calyptia Core

I haven’t tried the auto instrumentation. That is still on the to do list.