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I really hope we’ll have an open standard for tracing. Right now the common solutions are vendor-locking and can’t be integrated in OSS projects

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That's definitely a goal of OTel! And it seems to be working. Anecdotally, OTel support has been very important for my workplace (we sell observability tooling https://www.honeycomb.io/) in terms of prospects. I think a lot of decision makers at companies are realizing that they can't afford not to have vendor-neutral instrumentation.

And tracing is GA in most SDKs as well, so you should feel ready to adopt it. Several vendors and OSS tools support it (or you can export your data to another format with the OTel Collector).

Phillip also wrote https://leaddev.com/monitoring-observability/rise-openteleme... today, but is too shy to plug it :)

Took me a while to figure out OTel is OpenTelemetry here and you were not proposing another spec. Comment for others to realize this.

Open tracing works just fine.

OpenTracing and OpenCensus have been merged into the OpenTelemetry project. I think OT isn't sunset officially yet, but the future is OTel.

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