OpenTelemetry is going to be an existential threat to DataDog and other companies that effectively rely on vendor lock-in to exploit customers. Not sure how companies rationalize these types of services at scale when there are so many open source options to run for a fraction of the cost. You could hire 100+ engineers and still save money compared to a 65M bill

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540419

I’ve seen an attempted move from DD to OT and it was a nightmare of undocumented features and little compounded issues. Tracing was non functional. It doesn’t seem mature enough yet.