Airbnb Migrates High-Volume Metrics Pipeline to OpenTelemetry



Posted on Tue Apr 14 2026 | 1:30 pm


Airbnb's observability engineering team has published details of a large-scale migration away from StatsD and a proprietary Veneur-based aggregation pipeline toward a modern, open-source metrics stack built on OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the OpenTelemetry Collector, and VictoriaMetrics' vmagent. The resulting system now ingests over 100 million samples per second in production.




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