The OpenTelemetry (OTel) project is an open source initiative that aims to provide vendor-neutral standards and tools for collecting telemetry data from any source in the environment and sending it to any backend. Datadog, a platform provider, has been actively supporting OTel since its inception and has made significant investments in improving its support for the standard. The company has built a dedicated team to develop Datadog's support for OpenTelemetry and has released several features, including the Datadog Exporter for the OpenTelemetry Collector, general availability of OTLP ingest in the Datadog Agent, and improved support for OTel histograms. Additionally, Datadog is currently preparing to roll out support for OTel runtime metrics and other improvements. The company's goal is to provide a first-class product and customer experience for OTel users and continues to invest in interoperability and accessibility of its products for OpenTelemetry users.