Elastic.co's recent move to restrict its Beats open-source shippers from sending data to certain older or non-Elastic distributions of Elasticsearch has sparked concern within the open-source community. This decision, embedded as a breaking change in the minor 7.13 release, forces users to either stay on outdated versions or risk compatibility issues by upgrading. It highlights the challenges of vendor-owned open-source projects and the implications of such changes for users reliant on these technologies. In response, the open-source community, including companies like Logz.io, is turning to alternatives such as Fluentd, Fluent Bit, Telegraf, and Prometheus for log and metric data collection and aggregation. Moreover, the industry is increasingly aligning with OpenTelemetry, a vendor-neutral framework for unified telemetry collection, which promises to mitigate vendor lock-in risks and streamline observability efforts. Logz.io continues to support open-source initiatives, contributing to projects like OpenSearch as part of its commitment to the open-source ethos.