How much does request tracing cost your Node.js application? We ran the numbers. Modern Node.js applications increasingly rely on context propagation for distributed tracing, request correlation, and observability. Features like AsyncLocalStorage and...

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Really great post. Did you used Nsolid from nodesource? In case that it is true. Did you believe that nsolid has less penality in performance that opentelemetry ?
Ben Hughes
I identified several sources of otel span overhead in schleyfox/otel-js-lightweight-tracer on github
There’s a lot of room for improvement in the library.