# Drinking the OTel SODA: Send Observability Data Anywhere

DevFeed: [Drinking the OTel SODA: Send Observability Data Anywhere](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/drinking-the-otel-soda-send-observability-data-anywhere-5473.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/otel-soda-send-observability-data-anywhere>)

Author: Severin Neumann

Published: 2025-11-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>)

Tags: [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents SODA (Send Observability Data Anywhere) as an approach to composable observability. It argues that OpenTelemetry instrumentation and the OTel Collector let teams enrich, redact, sample, route, retain, and fan out telemetry to multiple backends without changing application code.

## Source excerpt

With community-standard instrumentation and the OTel Collector acting as a translation and routing engine, your metrics, logs, and traces are no longer trapped in a walled garden.