2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards

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, adoption, or simply helping others answer technical questions on our CNCF Slack, we want to recognize these contributions and the people behind them — because we’re all human, and we all like that warm fuzzy feeling of appreciation.

We are thrilled to announce the second annual OpenTelemetry Community Awards! This is your chance to nominate individuals who have made a notable impact to OpenTelemetry over the past year. Everyone can nominate anyone in the community, be they a contributor, end-user, or community member.

Submit nominations online by midnight UTC on November 6th, 20251. You can nominate up to five people per submission.

Winners will be announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025.


  1. Although we require sign-in to ensure only one form submission per person, nominations are completely anonymous. ↩︎