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OTEL was designed like it’s a Java app, and I mean that as a condemnation.

The errors are opaque and the API is obtuse. It’s also not quite done yet. The Node implementation has had major major bugs only fixed in the last twelve months, and necessary parts of the ecosystem (across all languages) are still experimental.

Overengineered and underdelivering. I’m using Prometheus on my next project. Though I’m tempted to go back to StatsD if I can find a good tagged version. Don’t hold data in a process with an unknown lifetime. Send it over loopback to a sidecar immediately and let it sort aggregation out.




Datadog agent supports StatsD with tags (aka DogStatsD - https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/dogstatsd/ ). You can push StatsD data to Datadog Agent, which will aggregate the data and push it to some centralized tsdb such as VictoriaMetrics according to the following docs - https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-send-data-from-data...


Oooooo. Good to know.




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