Support for OpenTelemetry

[BartHuls]

I'm looking at moving to a OpenTelemetry implementation for my project.
Is there a change that Akka.net will also support this.
The current OpenTelemetry support does not support the actors we are using.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, let me know.

Regards, Bart

[Aaronontheweb]

We have a commercial add-on that does this well at large scales: https://phobos.petabridge.com/

[BartHuls]

Hmm Phobos... no go... pricing is too much.
OpenTelemetry is quit well supported by all Microsoft Libraries. which is mean and clean.
Maybe it's cheaper to move to the MS Actor (Orleans) framework

[Aaronontheweb]

If $4000 / yr for accurate + high performance metrics and tracing complete with noise suppression and no need to do any instrumentation work is "too expensive," then that tells me you probably don't understand how hard this is to do yourself and how bad the default OpenTelemetry instrumentations are at all of the above in most OSS libraries.

[Aaronontheweb]

If you want to understand how Phobos works and why it's a cut above, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqH1lRVXeU

And our benchmarks comparing uninstrumented Akka.NET vs. w/ Phobos: https://phobos.petabridge.com/articles/performance.html

And our built-in dashboards: https://phobos.petabridge.com/articles/dashboards/prometheus-dashboard.html