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 …
Abandoned Go Contrib modules need code owners or will be removed
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 in 2024
The Go SIG will remove the code of contrib modules that lack code owners starting August 21, 2024. Published packages and releases will be marked as deprecated, though they’ll remain available for download. Currently unowned modules include the …
OpenTelemetry Java Metrics Performance Comparison
Friday, May 24, 2024 in 2024
Arguably the biggest value proposition of OpenTelemetry is that it aims to be a language agnostic, general purpose observability standard. By providing tools for traces, metrics, and logs (and profiling coming soon!), and implementations across many …