OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
OpenTelemetry guidance explains how products can export logs, traces, and metrics to any OTLP backend.
An OpenTelemetry blog post, with contributions from New Relic, recommends letting customers export logs, traces, and metrics to any OTLP-compatible backend instead of locking telemetry to a vendor dashboard. Self-hosted products should ship OpenTelemetry instrumentation and standard endpoint configuration, while cloud platforms should provide configurable telemetry drains. Kuma, Keycloak, Cloudflare Workers, and Heroku are cited, with differing coverage of logs, traces, and metrics.
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