Atlassian Rebuilds Metrics Pipeline Around OpenTelemetry at Massive Scale
Atlassian migrated 100,000 hosts' metrics pipeline to OpenTelemetry without dropping a single alert. Here's how they kept the 99.95% SLO intact.
Why it matters
A major infrastructure platform successfully replaced core observability plumbing at scale without disruption. The migration demonstrates production risk management for observability stacks—relevant to enterprise operators managing similar metric ingestion and alert dependencies.
The key facts
10 to knowAtlassian migrated from gostatsd to OpenTelemetry
100,000 hosts across 14 regions affected
Existing service maintained 99.95% SLO throughout migration
Migration required zero-downtime cutover of production-critical metrics pipeline
Published post-mortem engineering account on InfoQ
Migration scope: ~100,000 hosts across 14 regions
Baseline SLO: 99.95% (had to be maintained during swap)
Source: Atlassian engineering blog via InfoQ
Technology shift: gostatsd → OpenTelemetry
Published: September 29, 2026
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Publisher excerpt: Software company Atlassian has published an account of its migration from gostatsd to OpenTelemetry, replacing the internal workings of a metrics platform that receives data from about 100,000 hosts across 14 regions. The existing service had a 99.95% SLO, so the team had to change the platform…