PROMETHEUS AND OPENTELEMETRY INTEROPERABILITY IN 2026 - SURVEY RESULTS

Summary from the TLDR DevOps newsletter

A survey of 81 active OpenTelemetry users found that the average rating for ease of use with Prometheus rose to 3.6 in 2026, up from 3.1 in 2024. No respondents this year described the interoperability as "very difficult." Nearly half of participants use a hybrid approach for infrastructure metrics, mixing Prometheus and OpenTelemetry instrumentation styles.