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OpenTelemetry is starting to gain critical mass due to its vendor neutrality and having worked in the APM space for the last five years. I can see the appeal. Using OpenTelemetry libraries to instrument your code frees you from putting vendor libraries in your codebase. The other challenge most customers face is balancing cost versus visibility. While effective, most APM solutions are costly.

“Half the time the toilet’s out of reach – the other half it’s out of order”. –Arthur C. Clarke, Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations.

I can’t believe it’s been a year already since I last wrote a blog covering all the N-central releases in the previous 12 months. Part of what inspired me to write the blog last year was the volume of partners that I would speak to that were not running the latest version of N-central. So, I thought maybe if I highlighted some of the great new features added over the previous 12 months that it might inspire them to upgrade.