Blog on OpenTelemetry

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…

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…