--- title: Airbnb Migrates High-Volume Metrics Pipeline to... description: Airbnb's observability team migrated from a StatsD/Veneur-based metrics pipeline to one built on OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the OpenTelemetry Collector,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/airbnb-migrates-high-volume-metrics-pipeline-to-opentelemetry-ytqavyfqp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Airbnb Migrates High-Volume Metrics Pipeline to OpenTelemetry | daily.dev og:description: Airbnb's observability team migrated from a StatsD/Veneur-based metrics pipeline to one built on OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the OpenTelemetry Collector,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/airbnb-migrates-high-volume-metrics-pipeline-to-opentelemetry-ytqavyfqp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yTQAVYFQp.png og:image:alt: Airbnb Migrates High-Volume Metrics Pipeline to OpenTelemetry og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Airbnb Migrates High-Volume Metrics Pipeline to OpenTelemetry **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Airbnb's observability team migrated from a StatsD/Veneur-based metrics pipeline to one built on OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the OpenTelemetry Collector, and VictoriaMetrics' vmagent, now processing over 100 million samples per second. Key decisions included dual-emitting metrics during transition, switching high-cardinality services to delta temporality to reduce memory pressure, and selecting vmagent for its streaming aggregation and horizontal sharding. A significant correctness challenge emerged: Prometheus counter reset semantics caused systematic undercounting for low-frequency, high-cardinality metrics. The fix was a 'zero injection' technique in vmagent that emits a synthetic zero on first flush, implicitly initializing counters. The migration reduced costs by roughly an order of magnitude and the aggregation tier became a general-purpose transformation layer. The post also contextualizes similar migrations at Flipkart and Shopify, framing the StatsD exit and move to open-source Prometheus-anchored stacks as an industry-wide pattern. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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