# OpenTelemetry everywhere: Migrating a metrics platform at scale

DevFeed: [OpenTelemetry everywhere: Migrating a metrics platform at scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/opentelemetry-everywhere-migrating-a-metrics-platform-at-scale-41279.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/09/17/opentelemetry-everywhere-migrating-a-metrics-platform-at-scale/>)

Author: Iris Grace Endozo, Farzad Vazirnia and Albert Kerr, Atlassian

Published: 2026-09-17T11:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cloud-native-computing-foundation.md>)

Topics: [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [atlassian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/atlassian.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [atlassian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/atlassian.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [collector](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collector.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipeline.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [sidecar](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sidecar.md>)

## AI overview

Atlassian describes replacing a large-scale gostatsd metrics pipeline with OpenTelemetry while preserving the existing StatsD interface for service teams. The migration uses purpose-built OpenTelemetry Collector distributions across collection, ingest, aggregation, and forwarding stages, with support for both StatsD and OTLP during the transition.

## Source excerpt

Why we did this at all For most of the last decade our metrics pipeline ran on gostatsd, the open-source StatsD implementation we maintain. It primarily did two jobs: as sidecar on every host and the...