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OTel isn’t going well

by Mathew Duggan matduggan.com published 2026-08-1213 min read

For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?" Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put it charitably, idiot-

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