OTel-Native by Design - Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
Summary
OpenTelemetry OTLP export basics are explored, with a focus on building products that can export logs, traces, and metrics to any OTEL-backend. The article contrasts self-hosted software versus platform deployments (Cloudflare, Heroku, Kuma, Keycloak) and outlines patterns for a vendor-neutral, push-based export approach, including multi-tenant Collector topologies.