DevOps/CloudBackendHigh signalEmergingAround since 2019
OpenTelemetry
Also written as OTel
A vendor-neutral standard for emitting traces, metrics and logs, so you can change observability tooling without re-instrumenting every service.
Think of it like
A standard plug fitting: swap the appliance without rewiring the house.
Junior or senior?
Signals someone who has thought about vendor lock-in in observability. Often appears where a team has migrated between monitoring vendors.
Ask them
“What drove the move to OpenTelemetry, and what was hard about it?”