Beyond the Standard: Building GenAI Observability

While OpenTelemetry positions itself as a unified standard for GenAI telemetry, different SDK providers and LLM vendors emit conflicting attributes and structures in practice, forcing groundcover to build a comprehensive normalizer. This discovery reveals a fundamental gap between standardization ideals and real-world implementation: meaningful observability requires intelligent data normalization, not just SDK adoption. For organizations adopting GenAI observability tools, this underscores that interoperability demands active normalization layers to bridge fragmented standards.