No Way to Verify OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Without a Full Observability Backend
After installing the OpenTelemetry package, developers have no lightweight way to confirm the injector is active and instrumentation is being applied unless they first stand up a working OTLP receiver. This forces users who just want to verify a successful install to first deploy a full observability backend.
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