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Logging Sucks - A review of challenges with logging
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I don't disagree with the point being made but I think the author is underselling the value of opentelemetry tracing here.
OTEL tracing is not mere plumbing. The SDKs are opinionated and do provide very useful context out of the box (related spans/requests, thrown exceptions, built-in support for common libraries). The data model is easy to use and contextful by default.
It's more useful if the application developer properly sets attributes as demonstrated, but even a half-assed tracing implementation is still an incredibly valuable addition to logging for production use.