OTel-Native by Design - Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack

To avoid vendor lock-in and provide user flexibility, developers should design products to be "OTel-native" by supporting seamless telemetry export to any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend via the OTLP protocol. This is achieved either through built-in application instrumentation for self-hosted software or through configurable, infrastructure-level "telemetry drains" for cloud platforms. By prioritizing vendor neutrality and standardized semantic conventions, developers allow users to centralize their logs, traces, and metrics in their preferred observability stacks.