If you’re planning to adopt OpenTelemetry and don’t want it to turn into a messy, “instrument-everything-and-pray” rollout, this practical guide breaks down a calm, step-by-step way to introduce OTel with the right standards, rollout strategy, and guardrails—so you get reliable traces/metrics/logs without chaos.
OpenTelemetry adoption works best when you treat it like an engineering migration:
✅ Start with 1–2 critical services (not the whole platform)
✅ Standardize naming + attributes early (service.name, env, version, tenant)
✅ Use OTel Collector as the control plane (routing, sampling, processors, exporters)
✅ Decide what matters: golden signals, key spans, and cost-safe sampling
✅ Roll out in phases: baseline → dashboards → alerts → SLOs → continuous improvements
✅ Measure overhead + data volume so observability doesn’t become the new bill shock
Read the full guide here:
https://www.cloudopsnow.in/opentelemetry-practical-guide-how-to-adopt-without-chaos/
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