There’s no need to be rude and dismissive. Knock it off. You’re coming across as unnecessarily provocative and defensive.

If you truly believe OTel is a “baby fart,” I’d recommend you go to SRECon, KubeCon, and other similar conferences and make your opinion loudly known. Nobody talks about syslog there, and these are big and well-respected companies represented there.

Syslog is mature and battle tested for what it is: schlepping unstructured plaintext logs from one place to another. It’s not really purpose-built to meet the needs of a full-fledged observability solution, though, of which logs are but a component.