OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs

1 openWrangler 1 6/16/2025, 3:09:17 PM coroot.com ↗

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openWrangler · 2m ago
There aren’t many resources showing how OpenTelemetry should be factored into observability overhead costs. Some exist for OTEL SDK internals and the collector, but not much substantial information that can help teams make decisions or plan effectively.

Nikolay Sivko tests and measures OTEL overhead for a Go application in the article linked. Different results may show for other languages, but I think this resource could be helpful for any SREs and DevOps engineers out there comparing instrumentation approaches.