Posts in 2023
  • Thinking about contributing to OpenTelemetry? Here's how I did it.

    Monday, September 18, 2023 in 2023

    Are you an OpenTelemetry (OTel) practitioner? Have you ever wanted to contribute back to OpenTelemetry, but didn’t know where to begin? Well, my friend, you’ve come to the right place! Drawing from my own personal journey, I’d like …

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  • Migrating away from the Jaeger exporter in the Collector

    Thursday, September 14, 2023 in 2023

    The latest binary release of the OpenTelemetry Collector no longer includes exporters for the native Jaeger format. This change was prompted because Jaeger has support for OTLP out of the box. If you are a current user of either the Jaeger or Jaeger …

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  • OpenTelemetry .NET Automatic Instrumentation reaches version 1.0.0

    Thursday, September 14, 2023 in 2023

    The OpenTelemetry .NET SIG is happy to announce the first stable release of the OpenTelemetry .NET Automatic Instrumentation. You can use the OpenTelemetry .NET Automatic Instrumentation to send traces, metrics, and logs from .NET applications and …

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  • Opentelemetry PHP Release Candidate

    Wednesday, September 13, 2023 in 2023

    The OpenTelemetry PHP team is pleased to announce that the opentelemetry-php library has progressed to Release Candidate stability. This release is the culmination of years of work from the OpenTelemetry PHP team. Thank you to all of the …

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  • OpenTelemetry in Focus, August 2023

    Wednesday, September 06, 2023 in 2023

    Welcome back to OpenTelemetry in Focus for August, 2023! It’s been a busy summer, so let’s get into the updates without further ado. Are you a maintainer with something you’d like featured here? Get in touch with me via email, or on the …

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  • OpenTelemetry in Focus, July 2023

    Thursday, August 03, 2023 in 2023

    Welcome back to OpenTelemetry in Focus for July, 2023! I hope you’re all having a great summer (or if you’re in the southern hemisphere, a great winter!) Let’s get into the updates and releases from the past month. Are you a …

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  • Trace-based Testing the OpenTelemetry Demo

    Thursday, July 27, 2023 in 2023

    With contributions from Adnan Rahić and Ken Hamric. The OpenTelemetry Demo is a system that simulates a Telescope Shop, consisting of multiple microservices written in different languages, each handling a specific capability of this distributed …

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  • End-User Q&A Series: Migrating to OTel at Lightstep

    Monday, July 24, 2023 in 2023

    With contributions from Adriana Villela (Lightstep from ServiceNow). For the OpenTelemetry (OTel) End User Working Group’s fourth End User Q&A session of 2023, we spoke with Jacob Aronoff, Staff Software Engineer at Lightstep from …

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  • OpenTelemetry in Focus, June 2023

    Saturday, July 01, 2023 in 2023

    Welcome back to OpenTelemetry in Focus for June, 2023! It’s officially summer, but it’s not just hot outside – we’ve had some major announcements and releases this month. Are you a maintainer with something you’d like featured …

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  • End-User Q&A Series: Using OTel at Farfetch

    Wednesday, June 07, 2023 in 2023

    With contributions from Rynn Mancuso (Honeycomb) and Reese Lee (New Relic). On Thursday, May 25th, 2023, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) End User Working Group hosted its third End User Q&A session of 2023. We had a bit of a gap due to KubeCon Europe, …

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