2025
The Declarative configuration journey: Why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
Monday, October 20, 2025 in 2025
One of the most persistent and popular feature requests for Java OpenTelemetry over the past couple of years has been the ability to efficiently drop spans for health check endpoints – or any other low-value, cost-driving endpoints. This issue was …
Announcing the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election Candidates
Monday, October 20, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry Election Committee is excited to announce the final list of candidates for the upcoming 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election! If you are an eligible voter, you’ll have the opportunity to continue shaping the future of …
OpenTelemetry Sampling update
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 in 2025
Introduction OpenTelemetry published version 1.0 of its Tracing specification over four years ago, and the same year W3C TraceContext Level 1 was published with W3C Recommendation status. We as a community and we the observability industry had two …
Exploring OpenTelemetry Priorities for Mainframes - Insights from Survey Responses
Friday, October 10, 2025 in 2025
Which OpenTelemetry features are considered most important by users for enhancing the observability of mainframes? Earlier this year, the OpenTelemetry on Mainframes Special Interest Group (SIG) and the Open Mainframe Project conducted a survey to …
OTel Unplugged EU at FOSDEM 2026
Thursday, October 09, 2025 in 2025
OpenTelemetry is coming to FOSDEM! When we put out our community survey, you requested more meetups and we have heard you! We’re happy to announce that we are bringing back OTel Unplugged, the OpenTelemetry unconference that we first ran in …
Demystifying Automatic Instrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works
Wednesday, October 08, 2025 in 2025
Despite the rise of OpenTelemetry and eBPF, most developers don’t know what automatic instrumentation actually does under the hood. This post breaks it down—not to suggest you build your own, but to help you understand what’s going on …
A day in the life of an OpenTelemetry maintainer
Tuesday, October 07, 2025 in 2025
When people think about open source, they often picture lines of code, clever algorithms, or maybe a GitHub repository full of issues and pull requests. What can be harder to see is the human side. The people who quietly keep things moving, who make …
2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards
Monday, October 06, 2025 in 2025
OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code, documentation, project management, outreach, …
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2025
Friday, October 03, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon NA in Atlanta from November 10 - 13, 2025. Register today to join us! Read on to learn about all the events related to …
OpenTelemetry Android: Road to Stable
Thursday, October 02, 2025 in 2025
TL;DR – We want your feedback about the OpenTelemetry Android agent API before it stabilizes. Great news! The OpenTelemetry Android SIG is actively working on stabilizing the main initialization and configuration APIs in order to prepare for a 1.0.0 …