Comparisons
How Obtrace compares by workflow instead of vendor checklists
Comparison should be done by operational workflow, not by feature count.
Incident Workflow Comparison
Traditional Stack
- Alerts fired by one tool
- Traces inspected in another
- Logs queried in another
- Deploy context fetched manually
- Fix planned with fragmented evidence
Obtrace Workflow
- Detection, correlation, and context in a unified flow
- Service/env/release metadata attached to incident timeline
- AI-assisted diagnosis directly on observed telemetry
- Shared human + machine-readable context (
Ask AI, MCP,llm.txt)
Decision Criteria
Use these criteria when evaluating tooling:
- Correlation quality across signals and services.
- Time-to-triage under real production incidents.
- Deployment/change context in incident timeline.
- Reliability of ingestion and sampling strategy.
- Security posture and key management model.
- Team adoption friction and rollout complexity.
Migration Strategy
- Instrument Obtrace in parallel for one critical service.
- Compare MTTR and triage time for 2-4 incidents.
- Validate alert quality and context completeness.
- Expand only if measurable operational gains are confirmed.