Insights from the Prometheus Compatibility Survey
Thursday, July 25, 2024 in 2024
Prometheus and OpenTelemetry are two of the most active and popular projects in the CNCF observability landscape. The two communities have been working together since the early days of OpenTelemetry to improve the compatibility between the two …
OpenTelemetry Security Audit Published
Monday, July 22, 2024 in 2024
Thousands of organizations and millions of users around the world rely on OpenTelemetry as part of their observability toolkit. To this end, it is our responsibility as a project to ensure our code is safe, secure, and performant. In conjunction with …
OpenTelemetry Talks at KubeCon China 2024
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 in 2024
Join members of the OpenTelemetry community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev in Hong Kong from August 21 to 23, 2024. This post covers OpenTelemetry related events at the venue and will be updated as we receive notice of new …
Hardening the Collector Episode 1: A new default bind address
Tuesday, July 02, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry Collector recently went through a security audit sponsored by the CNCF, facilitated by OSTIF, and performed by 7ASecurity. As part of this process we published a security advisory related to a DoS vulnerability that was fully …
Insights from the OpenTelemetry Getting Started Survey
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 in 2024
Getting started with new technologies can be hard, which is why we try to meet our end-users where they are. As a part of that goal, the OpenTelemetry End-User SIG recently surveyed the community to find out how we can best help our users get started …
The Humans OpenTelemetry - KubeCon EU 2024
Saturday, June 15, 2024 in 2024
We’re back with our second edition of Humans of OpenTelemetry, this time from KubeCon EU in Paris. Once again, Reese Lee and I interviewed OpenTelemetry contributors and end users, and learned how they got involved with OTel: Iris Dyrmishi …
Observability at the Edge: New OTel features in Envoy and Istio
Friday, June 07, 2024 in 2024
In the dynamic world of cloud-native and distributed applications, managing microservices effectively is critical. Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, enabling seamless deployment, scaling, and management of …
Elastic Contributes its Continuous Profiling Agent to OpenTelemetry
Friday, June 07, 2024 in 2024
Following significant collaboration between Elastic and OpenTelemetry’s profiling community, which included a thorough review process, we’re excited to announce that the OpenTelemetry project has accepted Elastic’s donation of its …
Security vulnerability in OTel Collector confighttp and configgrpc (CVE-2024-36129)
Wednesday, June 05, 2024 in 2024
On our path toward graduation, the OpenTelemetry project is currently undergoing a security audit sponsored by the CNCF, facilitated by OSTIF, and performed by 7ASecurity. During this process, we have received a few ideas about things that we could …
An Introduction to Observability for LLM-based applications using OpenTelemetry
Tuesday, June 04, 2024 in 2024
Large Language Models (LLMs) are really popular right now, especially considering the wide range of applications that they have from simple chatbots to Copilot bots that are helping software engineers write code. Seeing the growing use of LLMs in …