OpenTelemetry Is Ageing Like Fine Wine

Founded in 2016, OpenTelemetry set out to end the observability nightmare. Enterprises were drowning in custom integrations, where each data source demanded its own connector for metrics, traces, telemetry, and logs.  Today, in an AI-first world, OpenTelemetry continues to affirm its original purpose: to provide enterprises with an open, standardised, and vendor-neutral framework for collecting machine data from numerous sources.For example, Splunk, the leading contributor to the OpenTelemetry project, incorporates the framework extensively into its newest AI observability solutions. Its AI Agent Monitoring feature, in its cloud platform, tracks LLM-based applications through performance, cost, and behaviour metrics – all built on OpenTelemetry's vendor-neutral foundation. Mor