OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel

Re:OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel by jitl on Friday November 07, 2025 @08:48AM (#45846321)

I want improvements like “dropdown menu of tags not limited to 50 items” and “one button forecast on any graph”. Unsure if any SQL query language will solve my annoyance that stuff in Datadog was one click, and in Grafana is 14 clicks or impossible without referencing a Book of the Arcane.

Heck I’m dying for “I can copy a graph between dashboards”. Grafana allows this but if any variable is in the graph but doesn’t exist in the destination, pasting just creates an empty graph.

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Re:OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel by nijave on Friday November 14, 2025 @10:33AM (#45927788)

For Grafana graphs, I think there's a graph library feature that solves that problem but it's been a couple years since I seriously used Grafana so don't remember the specifics

As for forecasting/trends, usually that's offloaded to the underlying data storage system so really depends on where the data is being stored (Prometheus, Influx, Mimir, Elastic, etc)

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