Datadog allegedly asked developer to kill open source data export tool
was silently killed. The person who wrote it appears to have been pressured into closing it, and nothing has been proposed to replace it."
Behavior of this sort would be inconsistent with the goals of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's , which seeks"to provide a set of standardized vendor-agnostic SDKs, APIs, and tools for ingesting, transforming, and sending data to an Observability back-end ." That is to say, the OpenTelemetry project aims to promote data portability, instead of hindering it, as is common among proprietary software vendors.On January 26 Dorman confirmed suspicions that he had been approached by Datadog and asked not to proceed with his efforts.in his pull request thread."I lacked the courage of my convictions and when push came to shove and I had to make the hard choice, I took the easy way out.
"Datadog 'asked' me to kill this pull request. There were other members from my organization present that let me know this answer will be a 'ok'. I am sure I could have said no, at the moment I just couldn't fathom opening Pandora's Box. There you have it, no NDA, no stack of cash. I left the code hoping someone could carry on. I was willing to give [Datadog] this code, no strings attached as long as it moved OTel forward. They declined.
He added,"However, I told them if you don't support OpenTelemetry in a meaningful way, I will start sending pull requests again. So here we are. I feel I have given them enough time to do the right thing."
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