OpenTelemetry at Delivery Hero: The Good, the Bad and the Vendor-Agnostic

This conference talk explores Delivery Hero's journey towards observability vendor independence using OpenTelemetry. Follow Elena Kovalenko as she details the international food delivery company's challenging path through implementing OpenTelemetry, including struggles with unstable contrib components, high resource consumption issues, routing challenges for stateful collector components in non-federated environments, and metric temporality conversion problems. Discover why, despite these obstacles, Delivery Hero remains committed to OpenTelemetry as their solution for achieving vendor-agnostic observability in their cloud native infrastructure.