Ivan Burmistrov offers a criticism of OpenTelemetry: it is stuck in the “Three Pillars” view. Three pillars are complicated, he says, and not the way he wants to work with logs.
At Meta, he used a tool based entirely on wide events (think OTel spans with tons of custom fields and not caring about the tree structure). Instead of searching these events, he’s used to doing analysis on them. Exploring with graphs.
Hear about his experience:
https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics?open=false
