OpenTelemetry: Tips to navigate the sea of observability options

Momento's journey with OpenTelemetry (OTel) highlights its flexibility and vendor-neutral benefits for observability, allowing companies to avoid vendor lock-in and evaluate multiple observability solutions simultaneously. Daniela Miao shares her experience from the inception of OpenTelemetry, which emerged from merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus, emphasizing the project's rapid growth and community contributions. OpenTelemetry provides a standardized API and protocol for instrumenting applications with metrics, traces, and logs, supported by varied SDKs and the optional OpenTelemetry Collector for processing data. While the ecosystem is still evolving and can present challenges due to changes, its dynamic nature offers adaptability in choosing vendors. Momento adopted OTel to maintain flexibility and meet high observability standards, offering customers enhanced visibility and performance without being tied to a single vendor.