When it comes to distributed tracing, what's your favorite tool, you know, the one you always reach for?

hey folks im lookin into distributed trac solutions lately and wanted to see whats everyones usin or recommends we r dealin w a growin microservices architecture and need a good way to track requests as they hop between services opentelemetry seems like the standard but theres so many collectors and backends to choose from any favorites or pitfalls to watch out for whats your experience been