[m-o11y]

This has been a constant source of friction between build vs buy, esp. when talking about day 1 operations, which is why at OpsVerse (https://opsverse.io/), built out ObserveNow, a fully managed, OSS based observability platform built for enterprise scale. So you don't have to tie yourself into a walled garden, can run pretty much any exporter to bring in data to the system (or take out), and always have access to the tooling that powers your platform without needing to babysit the observability platform itself as you grow.

And since it's purely ingestion based pricing, in general it works out a LOT cheaper as well.

explicit disclaimer: I work at OpsVerse