Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) State of the Nation 2023
Monday, October 23, 2023 in 2023
Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) is the emerging open standard to manage a fleet of telemetry agents at scale. In 2022, Splunk donated OpAMP to the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, with initial feedback from observIQ, based on observIQ’s custom …
OTel End User Working Group Presents: The Future of Observability Panel Discussion
Saturday, October 21, 2023 in 2023
OpenTelemetry has greatly impacted the Observability landscape over the past few years. While it introduces an open standard for telemetry generation and collection, what is actually improving the lives of Observability teams? Guests David Wynn, …
Final list of candidates for the 2023 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee
Thursday, October 19, 2023 in 2023
The OpenTelemetry election committee is pleased to announce the final list of candidates running for one of the five available seats. We encourage all voters to take a moment and review all candidates, picking the one that best represents your …
Portable Synthetic HTTP Testing with OpenTelemetry
Thursday, October 05, 2023 in 2023
Synthetic tests are an essential part of the Observability toolkit. They can be used to measure application SLAs, monitor endpoints in various geographies, navigate a web page like a user, or identify post deployment errors before your customers …
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2023
Monday, October 02, 2023 in 2023
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon NA in Chicago from November 6 - 9, 2023. Read on to learn about all the things related OpenTelemetry during KubeCon. …
First stable release of OTel Go metric SDK
Monday, October 02, 2023 in 2023
The Go metrics SDK has finally reached stable status with version 1.19.0 of OpenTelemetry Go. Project stability guarantees now apply to the go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric module. To learn more check the getting started and manual metrics …
OpenTelemetry in Focus, September 2023
Sunday, October 01, 2023 in 2023
Welcome back to OpenTelemetry in Focus for September, 2023! The autumn winds are bringing a flurry of activity to the project, as we prepare for KubeCon and Observability Day. Are you attending? We hope to see you there for our inaugural …
Announcing the 2023 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
Friday, September 29, 2023 in 2023
The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2023 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by end-of-day on 13 October 2023. The list of eligible candidates will be shared on 16 October 2023. Voting will take …
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 …
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 …