Why Some Roles Care About Open Source & Why Others Don't: 4th Annual Observability Survey | Grafana

This video presents Grafana's 4th annual observability survey (1,363 respondents) revealing that 77% of respondents view open source as important to observability, with significant variation by role and region. Myrle Krantz analyzes why executives, individual contributors, and vendors have different perspectives on open source—ranging from vendor negotiation leverage to hiring and customization benefits. The survey also shows Prometheus remains roughly twice as production-mature as OpenTelemetry, though 74% of teams are increasing OTel adoption.