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…
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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…
New OpenTelemetry Kotlin SDK
A new OpenTelemetry Kotlin SDK is under development, aiming to provide a unified telemetry solution for Kotlin and Kotlin Multiplatform projects across various platforms like Andro…
Beyond the good first issue - How to make your contributions sustainable
This article emphasizes that contributing to OpenTelemetry (and large open-source projects) is about more than just submitting code. It highlights the importance of understanding t…
How Mastodon Runs OpenTelemetry Collectors in Production
Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform, successfully utilizes the OpenTelemetry Collector in production with a remarkably small operations team. They prioritize simplicity…
Deprecating Span Events API
OpenTelemetry is deprecating the Span Events API in favor of using the Logs API for all events, aiming to simplify event handling and reduce inconsistency within the ecosystem. Whi…
Kubernetes attributes promoted to release candidate in OTel Semantic Conventions
Kubernetes attributes within the OpenTelemetry (OTel) framework have reached “release candidate” status, meaning they are nearing a stable, finalized schema. This milestone was ach…
Declarative configuration is stable!
Key parts of the OpenTelemetry declarative configuration specification have reached stable status, including the data model (JSON & YAML), parsing mechanisms, and a standard enviro…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 will feature a significant focus on OpenTelemetry, with numerous talks and sessions dedicated to the project from March 23-26 in Amsterdam. The…
OTTL context inference comes to the Filter Processor
Elastic’s OpenTelemetry Collector now features OTTL context inference in its Filter Processor, simplifying filter configuration. This new functionality allows users to define filte…