Compare suitability, operational responsibilities and limits before choosing this technology for a project. Which trade-offs should guide the decision?

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OpenTelemetry is useful for producing and transporting traces, metrics and logs through a vendor-neutral instrumentation model. It is not itself the long-term observability database. Choose the backend and collector architecture alongside the instrumentation so data has a defined destination and retention policy.

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