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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 …
OTel in Practice: Alibaba's OpenTelemetry Journey
Thursday, August 07, 2025 in 2025
In the latest session of OTel in Practice, engineers Huxing Zhang and Steve Rao shared Alibaba’s journey adopting OpenTelemetry within their services. The discussion focused on a wide range of topics, from Java agents to Go compile-time …
How Should Prometheus Handle OpenTelemetry Resource Attributes? - A UX Research Report
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 in 2025
On May 29th, 2025, I wrapped up my mentorship with Prometheus through the Linux Foundation Mentorship Program. My project focused on understanding how Prometheus handles OpenTelemetry resource attributes and how that experience could be improved for …
Observability by Design: Unlocking Consistency with OpenTelemetry Weaver
Wednesday, July 02, 2025 in 2025
TL;DR OpenTelemetry Weaver helps teams build observability by design, enabling consistent, type-safe, and automated telemetry through semantic conventions. With Weaver, you can define, validate, and evolve your telemetry schemas, ensuring reliability …
Adding Automatic Instrumentation to Your App, Made Easy with the OpenTelemetry Injector
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 in 2025
As OpenTelemetry adoption grows across infrastructure and application layers, easing the operational burden of instrumentation remains a shared priority. Today, we’re excited to highlight a recent donation from Splunk to the OpenTelemetry community: …
Action Required - Slack Workspace Changes are Coming Friday, June 20
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 in 2025
Yesterday the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that CNCF Slack workspace will be converted from an enterprise plan to a free plan on Friday, June 20, 2025. This will have implications for how Slack works for the OpenTelemetry …
OpenTelemetry Celebrates Pride
Monday, June 16, 2025 in 2025
OpenTelemetry, like all open source projects, only exists thanks to the tireless work of thousands of contributors and maintainers. To celebrate and recognize Pride Month in the United States, we’ve created several variants of our iconic …
OTel Community Day + Open Observability Summit: One Big Day for Open Source Observability
Friday, June 13, 2025 in 2025
On June 26, 2025, OTel Community Day and Open Observability Summit are joining forces at Open Source Summit North America. The OpenTelemetry governance and technical committees, along with project maintainers, are excited to present two community-led …
Insights from the OpenTelemetry Contributor Experience Survey
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry Contributor Experience SIG recently surveyed the community to learn what it’s like to contribute to the project and what we can do to improve the contributor experience. The Contributor Experience Survey asked contributors for …
Exposing OTel Collector in Kubernetes with Gateway API & mTLS
Thursday, June 05, 2025 in 2025
The goal of this blog post is to demonstrate how you can expose an OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector running inside Kubernetes to the outside world securely, using the Kubernetes Gateway API and mutual TLS (mTLS) for authentication and encryption. As …