OpenTelemetry

Setting up instrumentation in Go is painful and time-consuming, requiring 6-8 months of effort. Unlike Java or Python where OpenTelemetry works out-of-the-box, Go requires significant manual boilerplate and careful context propagation.

When implementing observability in Go, developers generate massive volumes of data (trillions of requests) that must be filtered and managed. Telemetry costs and data quality issues remain persistent problems despite tuning efforts.

Developers lack adequate GUI tools for visualizing how requests move through GraphQL resolvers. Understanding request routing and resolver execution flow is more difficult than with simpler protocols, creating a gap in observability.