The OpenTelemetry project excels at standardizing the instrumentation of applications to produce telemetry data—logs, metrics, traces, and profiles. However, it currently lacks a unified approach for storing this data and fails to provide clear guidance on utilizing these signals for troubleshooting applications and systems.
During this discussion, we will evaluate different open-source OpenTelemetry backends, considering factors such as usability and their effectiveness in aiding the comprehension of application performance and issue identification.