In this talk I will highlight some of the key issues end users face getting started with OpenTelemetry, and some possible ways to solve for this.

Some common questions we see are:
1. What is the right way to deploy otel collectors for my scale?
2. I have instrumented my applications but I don't see my telemetry data data ( esp. around tracing)
3. Questions around manual instrumentation or any use cases which are not covered by auto instrumentation are tough to get help and guidance on

This is more of an introspective talk on what we can do better as a community and derives from our experience of helping 1000s of users get started with OpenTelemetry.