The often-misunderstood controversies regarding Prometheus and OpenTelemetry arise more from technical incompatibilities that have since been resolved. Without going into the history of those controversies, it can be said that Prometheus remains the gold standard for metrics from Kubernetes deployments.
OpenTelemetry acts as a conduit to Prometheus, complementing it with distributed traces and, more recently, logs. While OpenTelemetry primarily offers a push-based approach, Prometheus can continue to operate as a pull-based system when used…
