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Are there any otel compatible symbolicators? Do we even need one?

Disclaimer: I am not promoting anything, I'm building an observability platform but it will not be mentioned in this post. If I build anything because of this post it will be MIT open source and otel compatible.

Hi,

I've been dealing with stack traces from mobile and frontend otel clients coming in obfuscated. I've built a small symbolicator I use for sourcemaps, but rn it only works with javascritp and it's not a standalone tool compatible with otel.

I'm considering building a symbolicator that can work with: sourcemaps, flutter, android and ios. I think this would be fun to do and obviously this is a ridiculous amount of work, so before I go down the rabbit hole I wanted to ask how people are handling this in general?

If you do have mobile/frontend monitoring are there oss tools that address this currently? Is symbolication even needed?

Any experience you share would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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