https://thenewstack.io/grafana-after-9-years-what-now/ is often considered to be the hands-down most popular observability platform for data visualization. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a key open source component to lend compatibility among the different observability platforms. It was just a matter of time before https://thenewstack.io/opentelemetry-otel-is-key-to-avoiding-vendor-lock-in/ became a key staple for Grafana users.
Fostering data ownership — OpenTelemetry can pre-process and route data to multiple destinations so an organization isn’t locked into a single vendor.
“Grafana users value OpenTelemetry’s open standards and tools for instrumenting applications, and find OpenTelemetry a natural fit for implementing application observability with Grafana.”