Custom OpenTelemetry Collector for Oracle WebLogic: Bringing Observability to Enterprise Java

Oracle WebLogic Server powers countless enterprise Java systems. But getting observability out of it has always meant juggling multiple tools, agents, and dashboards with no way to correlate signals across applications and infrastructure. I recently worked on standardizing observability across heterogeneous enterprise architectures at Banco do Brasil — from mainframe COBOL to cloud-native systems to on-premises WebLogic. The goal was simple: one semantic convention, one backend, one view of an e