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OpenTelemetry Is Expanding Into CI/CD Observability
Monday, February 24, 2025 in 2025
We’ve been talking about the need for a common “language” for reporting and observing CI/CD pipelines for years, and finally, we see the first “words” of this language entering the “dictionary” of observability—the OpenTelemetry open specification. …
Announcing the OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0
Friday, February 21, 2025 in 2025
We’re thrilled to announce that OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0 is here! We’ve been busy behind the scenes, polishing up the demo to make it more complete, robust, and user-friendly. We believe these exciting features and improvements deserve a …
OTTL contexts just got easier with context inference
Thursday, February 20, 2025 in 2025
Selecting the right OTTL context for running statements can be challenging, even for experienced users. Choosing the correct option impacts both accuracy and efficiency, as using higher-level OTTL contexts can avoid unnecessary iterations through …
The OpenTelemetry Contributor Experience Survey is open!
Monday, February 17, 2025 in 2025
TL;DR Take our OpenTelemetry Contributor Survey and help us enhance the contributor experience. We appreciate your time and feedback! Since its founding, OpenTelemetry has had thousands of contributors from around the world, including end users, …
Observing Lambdas using the OpenTelemetry Collector Extension Layer
Wednesday, February 05, 2025 in 2025
Getting telemetry data out of modern applications is very straightforward (or at least it should be). You set up a collector which either receives data from your application or asks it to provide an up-to-date state of various counters. This happens …
OpenTelemetry on Mainframe Priorities Survey
Friday, January 31, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry project and The Open Mainframe Project established the SIG “OpenTelemetry on Mainframe” at the beginning of 2024. Our focus is to enable OpenTelemetry on the mainframe for improved end-to-end observability and to support mainframe …
Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF
Thursday, January 30, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry community is excited to announce the beta release of the OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation project! This milestone brings us closer to our mission of making observability simple, accessible, and effective for Go applications. …
Kubernetes annotation-based discovery for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Monday, January 27, 2025 in 2025
In the world of containers and Kubernetes, observability is crucial. Users need to know the status of their workloads at any given time. In other words, they need observability into moving objects. This is where the OpenTelemetry Collector and its …
Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation
Friday, January 24, 2025 in 2025
Standards are only useful if they’re widely adopted, and adoption is only effective if the available tooling facilitates it. I imagine SI units would not have been too popular when they were introduced if you had to build your own scales to …
OpenTelemetry Go 2025 Goals
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 in 2025
As we kick off 2025, the OpenTelemetry Go team has come together to set a roadmap for the year. Our focus is on driving the OpenTelemetry Go project forward while strengthening its integration with the broader OpenTelemetry ecosystem. Goals …