The case for OpenTelemetry maintainership
Jack Berg argues that OpenTelemetry's primary bottleneck is a shortage of maintainers, as the volume of incoming contributions is significantly outpacing the capacity of available …
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Help us understand how you use OpenTelemetry's ecosystem lists
OpenTelemetry is reviewing the future of its ecosystem lists, such as the Registry and Adopters pages, due to limited maintainer bandwidth. They are seeking user feedback to unders…
Strengthening OpenTelemetry security while preserving API stability
OpenTelemetry has updated its client versioning policy to allow necessary security fixes to change behavior in minor or patch releases without requiring a major version upgrade. Th…
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2026
OpenTelemetry maintainers and the community invite attendees to KubeCon NA 2026 in Salt Lake City for a packed schedule of events from November 9-12, 2026. The agenda features tech…
Announcing the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election Candidates
The OpenTelemetry Election Committee has announced the final list of candidates for the 2026 Governance Committee election to fill four available seats. Voting will take place via …
The Humans of OpenTelemetry - KubeCon Japan 2026
This article features the fifth edition of "Humans of OpenTelemetry," highlighting interviews with five Japanese practitioners met at KubeCon Japan 2026. The participants share the…
Versioned metrics: Shipping the first Release Candidate metrics in hostmetrics
OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.160.0 introduces versioned metrics to the hostmetrics receiver, enabling a seamless transition to new semantic conventions without breaking exist…
OTel-Native by Design - Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
To avoid vendor lock-in and provide user flexibility, developers should design products to be "OTel-native" by supporting seamless telemetry export to any OpenTelemetry-compatible …
OpenTelemetry Community Awards 2026
The OpenTelemetry community has announced its 3rd annual Community Awards to recognize outstanding contributors across various roles, including coding, documentation, and project m…
The OpenTelemetry Java agent 3.0 is almost here — preview it today
The OpenTelemetry Java agent 3.0 is approaching, with version 2.32.0 serving as the release candidate for an October 2026 launch. This major update introduces significant changes t…
Zero-code trace-log correlation with OBI
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) enables zero-code trace-log correlation by automatically injecting `traceid` and `spanid` into logs written to stdout or stderr. Because it…
Exploring the OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Ecosystem
The article discusses the challenges of keeping OpenTelemetry instrumentation in sync with evolving semantic conventions, which often leads to gaps in telemetry implementation acro…