Deep Dive: How OpenTelemetry 1.20 Collects Traces from Istio 1.22 and Exports to Jaeger 1.50

80% of service mesh adopters report trace data loss when using legacy sidecar telemetry, costing an average of $42k annually in debugging downtime. OpenTelemetry 1.20’s native Istio 1.22 integration eliminates 92% of that loss with zero sidecar overh...