OpenTelemetry
Adopt
What
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the vendor-neutral standard for distributed tracing, metrics, and logging. We use it across our services as the common instrumentation layer.
Why this ring
Standardising on a vendor-neutral interface keeps us free to change backends without re-instrumenting, and gives us consistent telemetry across the estate. We're consolidating around it progressively.
What does this mean
Use OpenTelemetry interfaces in preference to vendor-specific or protocol-specific alternatives - direct Prometheus instrumentation, for example, should give way to OTel.