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Re:OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel by boilerupnc on Friday November 07, 2025 @11:04AM (#45847793)
Give IBM Instana a look. It has great otel support. Nice usability. [0][1] Free sandbox for an email [2]

[0] https://www.ibm.com/products/instana/opentelemetry

[1] https://github.com/instana/instana-otel-collector

[2] https://play-with.instana.io/#/home

[disclaimer: I'm an IBMer]

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Re:OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel by jitl on Friday November 07, 2025 @11:57AM (#45848401)
Can this visualize over data stored in Honeycomb like Grafana can?
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Re:OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel by morningspace on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:26AM (#45854845)
> Can this visualize over data stored in Honeycomb like Grafana can?

IIUC, Grafana connects directly to Honeycomb via its API to visualize data without storing it. Instana, on the other hand, is a bit different. It needs telemetry data to be ingested into backend before it can be visualized in UI. With Honeycomb, this could be possible if the data can be exported from Honeycomb to Instana.

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