Grafana Loki version 3.4 introduces enhancements such as standardized storage with Thanos, a sizing guidance page, merging of Promtail into Grafana Alloy, and support for out-of-order logs.
OpenTelemetry offers a standardized process for observability, but its functionality is a work in progress. Its usefulness depends on the observability tools and platforms used in conjunction with OpenTelemetry.
