I know I sound like a freak to you, but you sound like a deranged freak to me too. Who would opt for ignorance? Who would opt not to have data? Who would opt not to see more? Its insanity to me to resist enrichment so.
Limiting yourself to only naive senses is a wild proposition to me. The scientific mindset compels us to see further: it is a wild privilege to see more, to build and use tools that expand how we can see.
I don’t think you’re deranged. I do think this is a post about using telemetry 1) in (to me) excessive ways that defeat the point of the thing being measured 2) published on the website of a company that sells said telemetry solution.
Furthermore, to me useless or excessive data is very much a reality (if you do not agree that it is a possibility and a thing that happens, we have clearly no way of understanding each other), and per my criteria it is just that sort of data in this use scenario.
To be fair, the setup of the article works with most modern observability solutions, in same cases just by replacing the endpoint and authentication token. Turning telemetry processing into a sort of utility is one of the great things that OpenTelemetry did. Now, among vendors, we compete on delivering insights on the telemetry, as opposed to just collecting it. If you are interested, I wrote about it a while back [1].
About excessive telemetry, that depends on what you want to achieve. Using facilities in the OpenTelemetry Collector like [2], you can easily drop all telemetry you have no use for. At the cost of tooting my own horn, we actually provide super easy ways of doing the same dropping at no charge whatsoever to the end user in Dash0 [3].
