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DevOps•2026-04-07

Building a high-volume metrics pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent

This post details a production migration of a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry (OTLP) with Prometheus-based storage and vmagent for streaming aggregation.

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