[salil999]

I'm confused as to why this needs to be standardized? OTel makes sense because multiple applications can consume metrics and logs. Feature flags are typically contained within a company and they typically don't need to be transferred across to other places.

[antonyt]

OTel made sense because there were multiple observability vendors eager to lock you in with proprietary formats and SDKs. The motivation behind OTel is to instrument once and ship anywhere, whether your vendor is Datadog, Splunk, Sentry, or whatever.

This seems to be the same thing for feature flags, because these days people are farming FF management out to vendors like LaunchDarkly.