12 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenTelemetry first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“In our agent framework at Inkeep, we use OTEL end-to-end.”
endorse · production · gaurav12342345 · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“standard OpenTelemetry is designed for Ops (sampling, aggregation), but it misses the granular data needed for AI debugging”
mixed · production · morethananai · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run a prom+otel+xray stack at scale with grafana as the interface.”
endorse · production · drzaiusx11 · 2025-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Somewhere in our half million line application someone turned a stat into a string and I never did track it down. When we migrated from StatsD that became a problem.”
regret · production · hinkley · 2024-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ideally I would have liked to be completely otlp but can't for the reasons already explained.”
mixed · production · nullify88 · 2023-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we are building on top of opentelemetry which has seen remarkable increase in support across languages / frameworks”
endorse · production · royal0203 · 2023-03-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There are also some key features in DD that is not in OTEl -- for example, we can't use DD's APM ingestion controls for controlling sampling rates for OTEL spans”
mixed · production · hosh · 2023-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all the time I spent on Honeycomb and various other OpenTelemetry packages simply can't get it done.”
regret · personal · icelancer · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it to package the opentelemetry-c++ sdk for us”
neutral · production · malkia · 2024-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we already implemented a golang OTel log handler for the external case”
neutral · production · bhyolken · 2023-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ships logs over to highlight using their OpenTelemetry implementation”
neutral · production · Syntaf · 2023-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to OpenTelemetry agent from DataDog agent.”
neutral · production · CSDude · 2023-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?