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Kubernetes attributes processor reaches v1.0.0 milestone
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 in 2026
The Kubernetes attributes processor, which enriches your telemetry with Kubernetes metadata, has officially moved to v1.0.0! You can try it out on your custom distro, and it is also available as part of the latest opentelemetry-collector-contrib and …
Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation
Friday, September 11, 2026 in 2026
A trace does not always cross a network boundary. A workflow runner starts a shell, the shell launches a build tool, and the build tool starts test processes. Batch and data-processing systems create similar chains of child processes. Without a …
OpenTelemetry Go Logs API and SDK reach release candidate status
Monday, August 31, 2026 in 2026
OpenTelemetry Go v1.47.0-rc.1 is here. This release promotes the Logs API and SDK to release candidate (RC), the final stage before we provide stable v1 compatibility guarantees. We believe the design is ready, and now we need the community to test …
What can you do with OpenTelemetry entity events?
Friday, August 14, 2026 in 2026
Metrics, logs, and traces tell you how your systems behave. They are much quieter about what actually exists: which hosts, interfaces, switches, services, and volumes are out there right now, and, crucially, how that picture changed over the last …
Metric cardinality limits in OpenTelemetry: a practical guide
Thursday, August 06, 2026 in 2026
OpenTelemetry metrics are designed to be safe to use in production. One part of that safety is the cardinality limit in the metrics SDK. The limit protects your process from unbounded memory growth when a metric receives too many unique attribute …
We broke the OTel demo
Tuesday, July 28, 2026 in 2026
If you’ve been running the Demo for some time, you may have seen a couple of structural changes lately, and you may even have gotten mad about things not working as expected. We feel your pain and we totally understand it. Unfortunately there …
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 …