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Atlassian Upgrades Metrics Pipeline to OpenTelemetry Without Disrupting Alerts

Replacing a metrics pipeline that handles data from 100,000 hosts across 14 regions without breaking a single alert is no small feat. Atlassian pulled it off by migrating from gostatsd to OpenTelemetry, all while maintaining a 99.95% SLO. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes engineering that makes modern data management feel invisible, and that's the point. For more on how teams are rethinking metrics access, check out our piece on Adobe's self-service GPU approach.