Again, why would one need such a heavyweight tool?
Most frameworks have powerful loggers out of the box, like Monolog in the PHP world.
Most frameworks have powerful loggers out of the box, like Monolog in the PHP world.
There's even a handler for monolog in PHP - they are not necessarily mutually exclusive
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php/blob/mai...
The fact that Monolog has a handler for this tool isnt relevant, but it shows that there is one more layer of complexity tacked on.
You can still log to a text file if you want to run locally, but for something like next.js where you're intended to deploy production to some cloud somewhere (probably serverless) the option of _just_ writing to a text file doesn't really exist. So having OTEL as an ootb supported way to do o11y is much better than the alternative of getting sucked into some vendor-specific garbage like datadog or newrelic