# Making Rust observability reliable at scale with OpenTelemetry

DevFeed: [Making Rust observability reliable at scale with OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/making-rust-observability-reliable-at-scale-with-opentelemetry-2273.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/rust-tracing-opentelemetry/>)

Author: Björn Antonsson; Paul Le Grand des Cloizeaux; Scott Gerring

Published: 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traces.md>), [Instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/instrumentation.md>)

Tags: [apm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apm.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

Datadog describes building an opinionated Rust tracer on OpenTelemetry to improve trace propagation, sampling consistency, and trace quality in production services.

## Source excerpt

Learn how Datadog improved Rust tracing by building an opinionated OpenTelemetry-based library to help ensure consistent sampling, propagation, and trace quality at scale.