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Announcing OpenTelemetry Technical Committee Election Results
Wednesday, October 01, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry Technical Committee is delighted to announce two new elected members! Please join us in congratulating David Ashpole and Josh MacDonald! Both David and Josh are long-time OpenTelemetry contributors and specification sponsors. David …
Call for Contributors: OpenTelemetry for Kotlin
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 in 2025
Why launch OpenTelemetry for Kotlin? Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) allows running Kotlin code on many different platforms, such as browser, server, and desktop environments. Traditionally Kotlin has been most popular on Android and the JVM, but with the …
Announcing the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
Monday, September 29, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by 17 October 2025 23:59 UTC. The list of eligible candidates will be shared on 20 October 2025. Voting will take place …
Retrospective of September 25th go.opentelemetry.io incident
Friday, September 26, 2025 in 2025
On September 25th, at 10:35 UTC, we were notified that the go.opentelemetry.io’s SSL certificate had expired. This endpoint is the canonical URL for most Go modules within the OpenTelemetry organization. As a result, downloading any modules from that …
How to Contribute to OpenTelemetry
Monday, September 15, 2025 in 2025
You might have heard about OpenTelemetry, found it interesting and want to get involved, but the path to contribution isn’t immediately clear. You might start messaging people asking to get assigned to issues, or just give a shout out saying …
How to Name Your Metrics
Thursday, September 11, 2025 in 2025
Metrics are the quantitative backbone of observability—the numbers that tell us how our systems are performing. This is the third post in our OpenTelemetry naming series, where we’ve already explored how to name spans and how to enrich them …
Your Critical Legacy App is a Black Box? Let's Change That in 5 Minutes!
Thursday, September 04, 2025 in 2025
In almost every established enterprise, there’s THAT one system. It’s the one running in the corner, performing a critical function for years. It’s reliable, but it’s also a complete black box. No one wants to touch it for fear of breaking it, …
How to Name Your Span Attributes
Wednesday, August 27, 2025 in 2025
Welcome to the second installment in our series on OpenTelemetry naming best practices. In our previous post, we explored how to name spans using the {verb} {object} pattern. Today, we’re diving into span attributes—the rich contextual data …
More Signal, Less Noise: How GitHub Issue Reactions Help Prioritize
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 in 2025
Did you know that OpenTelemetry has had more than 23,000 contributors—that’s individuals who shared issues, commits, pull requests, or comments on GitHub—since the project started? We always encourage everyone to get involved, whether that’s by …
How to Name Your Spans
Monday, August 11, 2025 in 2025
One of the most fundamental yet often overlooked aspects of good instrumentation is naming. This post is the first in a series dedicated to the art and science of naming things in OpenTelemetry. We’ll start with spans, the building blocks of a …