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One-command OpenTelemetry setup on Linux hosts
Thursday, July 23, 2026 in 2026
OpenTelemetry as system dependency Setting up OpenTelemetry for your applications and systems depends on where those apps and systems run. Some are very automated, especially Kubernetes, thanks to the OpenTelemetry Operator, or AWS Lambda, with the …
OpenTelemetry @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026
Thursday, July 23, 2026 in 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan takes place July 28-30, 2026, in Yokohama, Japan. Register today to join us! Here are all the OpenTelemetry-related sessions, up to date at the time of writing. Session details can change, so confirm dates and times in …
Lambda-powered functions land in OTTL
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 in 2026
As telemetry pipelines become more sophisticated, so do the transformations they need to perform: sanitizing sensitive data, normalizing inconsistent schemas, and enforcing attribute contracts. While OTTL provides a rich set of transformation …
CocoaPods Deprecation Notice for OpenTelemetry Swift
Monday, July 20, 2026 in 2026
As it was announced via CocoaPods Support Plan and via CocoaPods Spec Repository, CocoaPods is transitioning their project to maintenance mode, and cocoapods trunk is going to be read-only in a few months. The OpenTelemetry Swift maintainers are …
Announcing v1 of OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation
Thursday, July 16, 2026 in 2026
If you write Java, Python, Node.js, or .NET, you have been able to add OpenTelemetry to an application without editing its code for years: attach an agent at startup and telemetry starts flowing. Go has been the exception. A Go program compiles to a …
OpenTelemetry Has Graduated… Now what?
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 in 2026
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a long journey, and we’re very …
The Voyage of a Small Environment Variable
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 in 2026
The OpenTelemetry Spring Boot starter gained declarative-configuration support starting in version 2.26.0 — the same YAML schema the Java agent introduced in late 2025, now embedded inside application.yaml. This post traces what one env var, …
Call for Contributors: OpenTelemetry for Dart and Flutter
Monday, June 29, 2026 in 2026
Why OpenTelemetry for Dart and Flutter? Dart is a full-stack language and the language of Flutter, one of the most popular frameworks for building cross-platform applications. Data shows over 20% of current app store submissions are Flutter apps. …
Don't Wrap OpenTelemetry — You're Probably Hurting More Than Helping
Wednesday, June 24, 2026 in 2026
There’s a pattern I’ve seen across many teams adopting OpenTelemetry, and it’s well-intentioned every single time. An engineer wants to make things easier for the team. They build a thin abstraction over the OTel API — an IMetric …
Deprecating OpenCensus compatibility requirements
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 in 2026
On June 12, 2026, the OpenTelemetry Specification project merged PR #5138, deprecating OpenCensus compatibility requirements in the specification. This change updates the specification to match where the ecosystem already is: OpenCensus has been …