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OpenTelemetry Adoption & Readiness Assessment

Measures developer familiarity, adoption stage, blockers, and rollout priorities for OpenTelemetry across engineering teams to inform instrumentation strategy and resource planning.

Sample questions

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20 questions · ~4 min
Q01
Long Text

Welcome to the OpenTelemetry Adoption & Readiness Survey. This survey takes approximately 6–8 minutes and covers your experience with observability tooling and OpenTelemetry. Your responses are completely anonymous and will be reported only in aggregate to inform tooling and adoption strategy. There are no right or wrong answers — we are interested in your honest experience. Participation is voluntary, and you may stop at any time.

Q02
Multiple Choice

Which best describes your primary role?

Q03
Multiple Choice

Which observability tools have you used in the last 6 months? (Select all that apply.)

Q04
Multiple Choice

Which best describes your organization's current OpenTelemetry adoption stage?

Q05
Multiple Choice

What are the biggest blockers to adopting or expanding OpenTelemetry in your organization? (Select up to 5.)

Q06
Multiple Choice

Which areas are your next targets for OpenTelemetry instrumentation in the next 6 months? (Select all that apply.)

Q07
AI Interview

We'd like to understand more about your experience with observability and OpenTelemetry. An AI moderator will ask a few brief follow-up questions based on your earlier responses.

Q08
Multiple Choice

How many years of professional software development experience do you have?

Q09
Long Text

Thank you for completing this survey! Your responses are anonymous and will be used in aggregate to identify adoption patterns and prioritize improvements to the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.

Q10
Long Text

What is your primary programming language for services you work on today?

Q11
Long Text

How familiar are you with OpenTelemetry concepts and components?

Q12
Long Text

Approximately what percentage of your production services are currently instrumented with OpenTelemetry?

Q13
Multiple Choice

Which of the following support resources would be most helpful for your OpenTelemetry adoption? (Select up to 3.)

Q14
Long Text

How likely is your team or organization to adopt or expand OpenTelemetry usage in the next 6 months?

Q15
Long Text

Based on your responses in this survey, if you could change one thing about OpenTelemetry or its ecosystem, what would it be?

Q16
Long Text

Where are you primarily based?

Q17
Multiple Choice

Where do your production workloads run today? (Select all that apply.)

Q18
Multiple Choice

Which OpenTelemetry components or capabilities are you using today, if any? (Select all that apply.)

Q19
Long Text

Rank the following outcomes by how important they are to your organization's OpenTelemetry goals (most important first).

Q20
Long Text

Approximately how many employees are in your organization?

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

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