Yes, the database is instrumented with OTel, but Datadog (via local agent) is our primary sink.

Yep, all pushed based directly from cluster! It helps that most of the observability ecosystem is converging on this? Even Prometheus, while pull-based inside the cluster, can remote-write to external storage, and that's the shape we'd pick even in that world. (we use datadog right now)

thanks rob! It does help that we are backed by object storage, and we try to make architecture choices that keep the system simple and safe to roll out at any time.