Skyscanner utilizes a centralized OpenTelemetry architecture with Gateway and Agent collectors to manage telemetry across 24 production Kubernetes clusters. By leveraging Istio spa…
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 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…
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 has entered public Alpha, aiming to establish a unified, vendor-neutral standard for continuous production profiling alongside existing observability signals…
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…
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…
Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform, successfully utilizes the OpenTelemetry Collector in production with a remarkably small operations team. They prioritize simplicity…
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 within the OpenTelemetry (OTel) framework have reached “release candidate” status, meaning they are nearing a stable, finalized schema. This milestone was ach…
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 will feature a significant focus on OpenTelemetry, with numerous talks and sessions dedicated to the project from March 23-26 in Amsterdam. The…