Yes. I love Rust, but its observability story is terrible right now. Not just tracing; I was complaining in another thread recently that the async ecosystem doesn't have a production-ready equivalent of thread dumps. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792011> I really want to see the whole picture improve (and as I'm able, participate in improving it).

I'm considering writing a tracing subscriber that dumps events, span starts/stops, and span field updates to a terse local log file format. This is a superset of what OpenTelemetry offers. (OpenTelemetry only has the concept of a completed span, which I find really unfortunate.) So I'd write a tool that takes that and pushes it to OpenTelemetry (otelcol-contrib plugin maybe) and more local-focused tools like `logcat`.