Next-Level Observability with OpenTelemetry

When something goes wrong in my applications, logging is almost always the first tool I reach for. I'll throw a few log statements at the start and end of a function, sprinkle some into the exception handlers, and I'll have a basic picture of what's happening. For simple services running on a single instance, that's usually enough; I can scroll through the log file, spot the error, and trace it back to its cause. But as my systems have grown, that same approach doesn't work. Logs pile up from mu