Distributed architectures spanning Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure frequently suffer from observability fragmentation. When a request originates in an AWS-hosted API Gateway, traverses a set of microservices, and triggers a specialized worker in Azure, the visibility chain often breaks at the provider boundary. Engineering teams find themselves navigating isolated dashboards in CloudWatch and Azure Monitor, attempting to manually correlate timestamps and request IDs while the Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) escalates. This lack of a unified telemetry pipeline conceals latent bottlenecks and makes identifying the root cause of cross-cloud failures nearly impossible. The definitive architectural solution is the implementation of a vendor-agnostic OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector mesh.…