How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails
Summary
The article explains how the authors configured the OpenTelemetry Ruby logs SDK in a Rails app to export logs directly to Grafana Cloud without using a collector. It covers the rationale, the necessary gems, environment configuration, and initialization steps, plus two observed issues with open-source Ruby SDKs and how they were fixed. It also suggests next steps toward structured logging with Rails and OpenTelemetry.