Posts in 2024
  • Announcing the 2024 Governance Committee Election Results

    Thursday, October 24, 2024 in 2024

    We are delighted to announce the results of the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election! The OpenTelemetry project continues to bring together an exceptionally vibrant community, who are shaping the future of observability with their …

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  • Announcing the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election Candidates

    Tuesday, October 15, 2024 in 2024

    The OpenTelemetry election committee is excited to announce the final list of candidates for the upcoming 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election! If you are an eligible voter, you’ll have the opportunity to continue shaping the future of …

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  • The OpenTelemetry Spring Boot starter is now stable

    Monday, September 30, 2024 in 2024

    We’re proud to announce that the OpenTelemetry Spring Boot starter is now stable. The Spring Boot starter is a powerful tool that simplifies the process of instrumenting Spring Boot applications with OpenTelemetry. It provides a lightweight, …

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  • OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow in Production

    Wednesday, September 25, 2024 in 2024

    The OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow (OTel-Arrow) project’s exporter and receiver components for the OpenTelemetry Collector are now included in OpenTelemetry Collector-Contrib releases. This is a case study of our experience deploying …

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  • Prometheus and OpenTelemetry - Better Together

    Wednesday, September 04, 2024 in 2024

    Tools such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry help us monitor the health, performance, and availability of our complex distributed systems. Both are open source projects under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) umbrella – but what role does …

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  • Announcing the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election

    Tuesday, September 03, 2024 in 2024

    The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by 11 October 2024 23:59 UTC. The list of eligible candidates will be shared on 14 October 2024. Voting will take place …

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  • Planned Migration for go.opentelemetry.io

    Tuesday, August 27, 2024 in 2024

    With contributions from Tyler Yahn and Austin Parker. TL;DR The app that serves requests to go.opentelemetry.io will be migrating to a new host on September 5, 2024 at approximately 11:00AM Eastern Time. There are no changes required from you. We are …

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  • OpenTelemetry website goes multilingual!

    Tuesday, August 20, 2024 in 2024

    We are happy to announce that the OpenTelemetry website is available in multiple languages! Localization teams have already started to translate website pages into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. The OpenTelemetry project has grown to …

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  • Behind the scenes of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee

    Thursday, August 15, 2024 in 2024

    As a principal engineer at Grafana Labs, my focus is on OpenTelemetry: writing code or maintaining OTel Collector components and tooling, helping out with our recent security audit, and building bridges between people with similar ideas — all with …

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  • 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 …

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