08Forty services each ship a different vendor agent. You are consolidating on OpenTelemetry. What improves, what breaks, what of the vendors?▼mediumNewDatadogGitLabSalesforceunlockedOpenTelemetry is an API and a wire protocol, not a product. Candidates who promise instant multi-vendor bliss have never run the collector in production or negotiated with a vendor who knows it.Open full answer →
09You are building a new service. What do you instrument on day one so the first incident is diagnosable?▼mediumNewGoogleStripeLinkedInunlockedDay-one telemetry is cheap and retrofitting it costs an incident. The answer that scores names the linking layer (trace IDs in logs, exemplars on metrics) that turns three tools into one story.Open full answer →
