The article discusses the author's enthusiasm for Open Telemetry (OTel), emphasizing its transformative potential in monitoring and observability, reminiscent of the revolution brought about by tracing in the early 2000s. The author reflects on the historical challenges of gathering insights from disparate metrics and logs, contrasting that with the real-time data capabilities made possible by tracing. OTel represents a significant step forward, promising new advancements in how IT professionals can understand their systems and user interactions, marking an essential evolution in IT practices.
OTel is exciting because it's the biggest change in monitoring and observability since Traces—a significant evolution for IT practices since the early 2000s.
Monitoring used to rely on scraping metrics from OS commands and logs, but with Traces, we could access real-time data about user actions and application behavior.
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