Comment by phillipcarter

It's not uncommon to see misalignment in large corporations like that. A year or so ago, Datadog field teams were explicitly creating FUD over OTel ("it's unstable, unusuable" all the same crap) while at the same time ramping up some of their efforts to contribute to OTel and make their own product experiences with OTel data better. They (and perhaps also Dynatrace) have an entire field org trained on the idea that their proprietary tech is inherently better and nothing in the open will be able to compete with it.

Also, to say OTel threatens these proprietary agents would be an understatement. The OTel Java agent comes with 100+ OOTB integrations right now. If I were a Dynatrace sales leader and I know that we sunk a ton of cost into creating our own stuff, I'd be casting FUD into the world over OTel too.