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Observability without a vendor
OpenTelemetry, a single collector, and the discipline to instrument only what you will actually read. A minimal stack that costs almost nothing.
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The pitch for OpenTelemetry has always been portability — instrument once, send anywhere. The under-told pitch is austerity. You can run a single collector, a single Clickhouse, and read traces in Grafana for less than the cost of a side project.