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OTel Community Day + Open Observability Summit: One Big Day for Open Source Observability
Friday, June 13, 2025 in 2025
On June 26, 2025, OTel Community Day and Open Observability Summit are joining forces at Open Source Summit North America. The OpenTelemetry governance and technical committees, along with project maintainers, are excited to present two community-led …
Insights from the OpenTelemetry Contributor Experience Survey
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry Contributor Experience SIG recently surveyed the community to learn what it’s like to contribute to the project and what we can do to improve the contributor experience. The Contributor Experience Survey asked contributors for …
Exposing OTel Collector in Kubernetes with Gateway API & mTLS
Thursday, June 05, 2025 in 2025
The goal of this blog post is to demonstrate how you can expose an OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector running inside Kubernetes to the outside world securely, using the Kubernetes Gateway API and mutual TLS (mTLS) for authentication and encryption. As …
Announcing the RPC Semantic Conventions stabilization project
Monday, June 02, 2025 in 2025
The Semantic Conventions SIG is excited to kick off the RPC stabilization effort! Following the stabilization of the database conventions in May 2025, we’re continuing our work to stabilize key areas—and RPC is next. It takes a village to …
Kubernetes CPU Metrics in the kubeletstats Receiver: Transition from .cpu.utilization to .cpu.usage
Friday, May 30, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry Collector’s kubeletstats receiver is a crucial component for collecting Kubernetes node, pod and container metrics. To improve metric accuracy and adhere to OpenTelemetry semantic conventions, we are updating how CPU metrics are …
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry project invites you to join members of the OpenTelemetry community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan (registration) and at the co-located Community Day in Tokyo spanning from June 14 to 17, 2025. This post covers all currently …
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry project invites you to join members of the OpenTelemetry community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Asia: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China (registration) in Hong Kong from June 10 to 11, 2025. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan the …
OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow - Phase 2 Announcement
Monday, May 12, 2025 in 2025
We are excited to announce the next phase of the OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow project (OTel-Arrow). We began this project several years ago with the goal of bridging between OpenTelemetry data and the Apache Arrow ecosystem. Apache Arrow …
The Humans of OpenTelemetry - KubeCon EU 2025
Wednesday, May 07, 2025 in 2025
We’re back with our fourth edition of Humans of OpenTelemetry, this time from KubeCon EU in London, UK. Once again, Reese Lee and I interviewed OpenTelemetry contributors and end users, and learned how they got involved with OTel: Marylia …
OpenTelemetry Logging and You
Friday, April 18, 2025 in 2025
If you’ve been following OpenTelemetry for a while, you’ve probably heard a lot about logs. Log bridges, Logs API, events, you name it, we’ve talked about it. This blog post is intended to be a discussion of the rationale and current design direction …