Topic

Sharding and load balancing

Spreading work across replicas while keeping related data on a consistent instance, as stateful aggregation and session-affinity systems require.

Current clusters

product1 publisher

Atlassian swapped its metrics engine behind the same StatsD address on 100,000 hosts

Atlassian's platform team rebuilt collection, ingest, aggregation and forwarding on OpenTelemetry Collectors across 14 regions. Applications kept firing StatsD over UDP, so no service team had to re-instrument first.

Publishers:cncf.io

Reality

Evidence56
Adoption66
Hype gap+8
Incentives68
Confidence62