How Skyscanner scales OpenTelemetry: managing collectors across 24 production clusters
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How Skyscanner scales OpenTelemetry: managing collectors across 24 production clusters


Summary

Skyscanner utilizes a centralized OpenTelemetry architecture with Gateway and Agent collectors to manage telemetry across 24 production Kubernetes clusters. By leveraging Istio span-to-metrics conversion and an opinionated auto-instrumentation strategy, the platform team provides scalable, vendor-agnostic observability to service teams with minimal manual configuration.
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