We are thrilled to unveil the OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow, which is based on Apache Arrow, a columnar-oriented memory format used for developing analytics applications. This integration facilitates a reduction in telemetry data traffic by a factor of 10 after compression, offering a 40% improvement over the best existing OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) configurations with Zstandard (zstd) compression enabled. As a result, this new protocol emerges as an optimal choice for transport...| OpenTelemetry