CSharp telemetry evolution - OTel Exporter and ActivityListener implementations #3481
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@birschick-bq How do you see this evolving as time goes on? It sounds like the file exporter in the Listeners project isn't fully compatible with the one in the Exporters project -- so switching to Exporters would be a breaking change? Then any new C#-based driver would have to decide which of the two to use/support?
Originally posted by @CurtHagenlocher in #3315 (comment)
Need to address the evolution of telemetry observation possibilities in the CSharp implementation.
Currently, there are two implementations.
- based on the OTel Exporters interface
- base on the ActivityListener interface
- Does it make sense to have two implementations?
- Can a driver leverage both implementations?
- What strengths and weaknesses does each implementation bring?