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Only include resource detectors you need by building your own Collector
Thursday, October 29, 2026 in 2026
There are many reasons for building your own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution. The existing distributions are designed to be broadly useful, which means they include many more components than what an individual deployment uses. Building your own …
Announcing the 2026 Governance Committee Election Results
Thursday, October 29, 2026 in 2026
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election! The OpenTelemetry project continues to bring together an exceptionally vibrant community, who are shaping the future of observability with their …
Faster, smaller checkpoints: the File Log receiver now uses protobuf
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 in 2026
If you run the File Log receiver with a storage extension, the Collector writes a checkpoint every time it polls your log files. That checkpoint is how the receiver remembers where it stopped reading, so a restart does not lose or duplicate logs. For …
OpenTelemetry Transformation Language reaches v1
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 in 2026
The OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) is now v1. Starting with opentelemetry-collector-contrib v0.164.0, OTTL is stable for traces, metrics, and logs. The release of v1 means OTTL meets the Collector’s ‘stable’ stability …
The case for OpenTelemetry maintainership
Monday, October 26, 2026 in 2026
I believe OpenTelemetry’s primary constraint isn’t ideas, code contributions, or adoption, but maintainers. About me I’ve been working on OpenTelemetry since early 2021. I’m a maintainer of opentelemetry-java, …
Help us understand how you use OpenTelemetry's ecosystem lists
Friday, October 23, 2026 in 2026
Do you use OpenTelemetry’s registry or ecosystem lists? Comment on the issue and tell us which pages you need and why. We are reviewing the future of these pages. Understanding how people use them will help us focus our efforts within the …
Strengthening OpenTelemetry security while preserving API stability
Thursday, October 22, 2026 in 2026
OpenTelemetry has updated its client versioning policy to make room for security fixes that need to change behavior. Stable SDKs and Contrib components, such as instrumentation libraries and exporters, can now make narrowly scoped, necessary security …
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2026
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 in 2026
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City from November 9 - 12, 2026. Register today to join us! Read on to learn about all the events …
Announcing the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election Candidates
Monday, October 19, 2026 in 2026
The OpenTelemetry Election Committee is excited to announce the final list of candidates for the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee election! Eligible voters can help fill four Governance Committee seats through Helios Voting. Voting opens: 26 …
The Humans of OpenTelemetry - KubeCon Japan 2026
Thursday, October 15, 2026 in 2026
We’re back with our fifth edition of Humans of OpenTelemetry, and for the first time, from Japan! At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 in Yokohama, I interviewed OpenTelemetry end users and practitioners from the Japanese cloud native …