Blog on OpenTelemetry

Welcoming New Community Managers to OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is expanding its community management team due to significant growth – now boasting nearly 20,000 contributors. Founding community manager Austin Parker is stepping b…

OpenTelemetry Collector Follow-up Survey

The 2025 OpenTelemetry Collector survey reveals continued scaling of deployments, with Kubernetes remaining dominant (81%) and increased VM usage (51%). While customization is risi…

Reducing Log Volume with the OpenTelemetry Log Deduplication Processor

The OpenTelemetry Log Deduplication Processor significantly reduces log volume by aggregating identical log messages over a configurable time window, replacing numerous duplicates …

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation 2026 Goals

The OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation SIG has set ambitious goals for 2026, primarily focusing on achieving a stable 1.0 production-ready release. This includes comprehensive docu…

Improving Async Workflow Observability in Dapr

This article details how the Dapr community improved observability for asynchronous workflows by enhancing its OpenTelemetry integration. The core challenge was propagating trace c…

OpenTelemetry JS Statement on Node.js DOS Mitigation

The recent Node.js denial-of-service issue isn't a vulnerability in OpenTelemetry itself, but stems from how some applications use AsyncLocalStorage with older Node.js versions (be…

Calling New Contributors - Help Us Improve the OpenTelemetry Onboarding Experience

Grafana Labs and the OpenTelemetry project are conducting a research study to improve the onboarding experience for new contributors. They recently discovered through a survey that…

What 10,000 Slack Messages Reveal About OpenTelemetry Adoption Challenges

This article summarizes an analysis of nearly 10,000 Slack messages from the OpenTelemetry community, revealing key adoption challenges. The study found that a large majority of me…