Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
For everyone blindly rage triggered by the presence of the bytes &quot;t-e-l-e-m-e-t-r-y&quot;, cogman10 elsewhere ITT [1] summarized that concern well:<p>&gt; It&#x27;s like being afraid your browser profiler is being used to spy on you. Could it do that? Sure. but there are so many easier ways to accomplish the same task.<p>So take a second to straighten out your panties and then actually <i>look at</i> the thing first. It&#x27;s just an open-source (!) APM protocol that competes with (edit: more like, adjacent to) DataDog, DynaTrace, New Relic etc etc. <i>It&#x27;s not even a suitable tool for spying</i>.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27296419" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27296419</a>