OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that OpenTelemetry has officially graduated, marking a significant milestone for its global community and ecosystem. This…
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Applying OpenTelemetry Security Practices in Legacy Environments
Securing OpenTelemetry in legacy and industrial environments requires shifting security controls from unmodifiable source systems to the telemetry pipeline itself. By treating the …
Inside the LLM Call: GenAI Observability with OpenTelemetry
This article explains how OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions for Generative AI provide essential visibility into the complex, hidden operations of LLM-powered applications, such as…
Introducing OTel Blueprints and Reference Implementations
To address the inherent and accidental complexities of OpenTelemetry adoption, the project is introducing "Blueprints and Reference Implementations." These blueprints will provide …
Introducing the Ecosystem Explorer Project
The OpenTelemetry Ecosystem Explorer Project introduces a searchable platform designed to help developers easily discover which specific telemetry signals, such as spans and metric…
OpenTelemetry Japanese Community Survey
The OpenTelemetry Japanese Community Survey reveals a mature landscape in Japan, with nearly 87% of respondents already using or evaluating the technology and a notable preference …
Deprecating OpenTracing compatibility requirements
The OpenTelemetry Specification has deprecated OpenTracing compatibility requirements to align with the industry's shift toward native OpenTelemetry APIs and OTLP-based workflows. …
How Skyscanner scales OpenTelemetry: managing collectors across 24 production clusters
Skyscanner utilizes a centralized OpenTelemetry architecture with Gateway and Agent collectors to manage telemetry across 24 production Kubernetes clusters. By leveraging Istio spa…
OpenTelemetry Accepted Elastic's PHP Distro Donation
The OpenTelemetry community has officially accepted the donation of the OpenTelemetry PHP Distro project, which provides an "operations-first" installation model to simplify observ…
OBI Gives Incident Response the Request Context It Needs
OBI v0.7.0 introduces HTTP header enrichment, allowing eBPF-based traces to carry critical request context such as tenant IDs and user segments. This feature enables much faster in…
Inside Adobe's OpenTelemetry pipeline: simplicity at scale
Adobe has implemented a three-tier OpenTelemetry pipeline to achieve scalable observability across its diverse infrastructure, prioritizing simplicity for its service teams. The sy…
OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha
OpenTelemetry Profiles has entered public Alpha, aiming to establish a unified, vendor-neutral standard for continuous production profiling alongside existing observability signals…