OTel-Native by Design - Building Backends That Export to Any Observability Stack

If you’re building a backend or SaaS product, your users will eventually request the ability to send logs, traces, and metrics to their own observability stack for compliance, cost management, or centralization purposes. Supporting export to any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend is a vendor-neutral, future-proof approach that gives users freedom in choosing their observability platform. This post outlines how to design your backend to enable full telemetry export—logs, traces, and metrics—to an OTel backend when users need it.