Otel tracing works and should be pretty bulletproof - metrics is still early so you might see some weirdness (we'll need to update the remaining work we've identified in GH issues)
You can 100% build tabular views based on JSON logs, we auto-parse JSON logs and you can customize the search table layout to include custom properties in the results table.
Let us know if we fulfill this need - we at least do this ourselves so I feel pretty confident it should work in your use case! If there's anything missing - feel free to ping us on Discord or open an issue, we'd likely benefit from any improvement ideas ourselves while we're building HyperDX :)
Edit: Oh I also talk a bit about this in another comment below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37561358