GoKawiilGuide outlines how to make products export data to any OpenTelemetry backend
A technical blog post, with input from New Relic's Dan Gomez Blanco, lays out methods for designing self-hosted or SaaS products so users can export logs, traces, and metrics to any OpenTelemetry-compatible observability backend. It covers the three established OTel signal types—logs, traces, and metrics—carried via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), and notes that a fourth signal, profiles, entered public alpha on March 26, 2026.