Slight tangent for a moment, I really really hate the "subscribe" popup that comes up on this blog. It is not clear at all that you can just close it and not give your email since there is no "x" button. Instead it has the incredibly unintuitive "continue reading" under the subscribe button that I did not think would work. Clicking out of it also did not work. Seriously we can and should be better than this.

On the topic of open telemetry. I have been long wanting to play with it and see if it offers all of the capabilities when we send the data to datadog. But I have been reluctant to add in another thing to manage and train on if it means that the datadog agent is still necessary for anything outside of the basics.

Has anyone else actually tried hooking this up to datadog?

Edit: just to be clear, my driving goal of this is not necessarily to keep it with datadog. But that is currently where much of our alerting and logs are now. So the idea would be to switch to open telemetry which would then allow us to (theoretically) move to something else down the line.