OpenTelemetry Adoption: The Instrumentation Debt Audit We Should Have Done First

We migrated to OpenTelemetry from three different proprietary SDKs. The cardinality explosion from naively porting existing metrics nearly took down our Prometheus cluster.

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Tags

• opentelemetry
• observability
• tracing
• metrics
• prometheus