Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/building-a-high-volume-metrics-pipeline-with-opentelemetry-and-vmagent-c714d6910b45Article
- Airbnb migrated high-volume metrics from StatsD to OpenTelemetry + vmagent
- Uses Grafana Mimir for long-term storage at scale
- Direct OTLP emission chosen over scraping Prometheus endpoints
Discussion
- Commenter questions why Mimir over VictoriaMetrics cluster
- “Reliable” not a word one commenter associates with Prometheus at scale
- Interest in OTLP push vs. scrape tradeoff — scrape is simpler but push scales better
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| Added | Apr 16, 2026 |
| Modified | Apr 16, 2026 |