--- title: One tip for successful OpenTelemetry projects | daily.dev description: Migrating an organization to OpenTelemetry is easier when you minimize changes. For JVM applications already exposing metrics via JMX, the OpenTelemetry JMX... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/one-tip-for-successful-opentelemetry-projects-qon87ewzp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: One tip for successful OpenTelemetry projects | daily.dev og:description: Migrating an organization to OpenTelemetry is easier when you minimize changes. For JVM applications already exposing metrics via JMX, the OpenTelemetry JMX... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/one-tip-for-successful-opentelemetry-projects-qon87ewzp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QOn87eWZP.png og:image:alt: One tip for successful OpenTelemetry projects 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. # One tip for successful OpenTelemetry projects **[A Java geek](https://daily.dev/sources/frankel)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Migrating an organization to OpenTelemetry is easier when you minimize changes. For JVM applications already exposing metrics via JMX, the OpenTelemetry JMX Metric Scraper lets you collect and forward MBean metrics to an OpenTelemetry Collector without touching the application itself. The post walks through setting up the scraper as a Docker container, configuring it with built-in presets (e.g., Tomcat, Kafka) or custom YAML rules, and wiring it into a stack with the OTel Collector, Prometheus, and Grafana. The key takeaway: reuse existing instrumentation assets to reduce change management overhead and improve adoption chances. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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