OpenTelemetry Accepted Elastic's PHP Distro Donation The OpenTelemetry community accepted the donation of the OpenTelemetry PHP Distro project. This post summarizes what the donation enables, how it relates to existing PHP instrumentation paths, and…

PHP adoption of #OpenTelemetry has been difficult in restricted environments. With the donation of Elastic's PHP distribution, we hope to change that. The distribution is moving toward a first beta release. Learn more in our latest post!

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OBI Gives Incident Response the Request Context It Needs When incidents are active, traces usually tell you that something is wrong. The harder problem is figuring out who is affected and why, quickly. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) v0.7.0 adds…

💡 Configure HTTP header enrichment in #OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) and gain the request context you need to narrow the scope during an incident. With the OBI v.0.7.0, you can find out who is affected and why - quickly. Our latest blog post explains the config change.

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Inside Adobe's OpenTelemetry pipeline: simplicity at scale As part of an ongoing series, the Developer Experience SIG interviews organizations about their real-world OpenTelemetry Collector deployments to share practical lessons with the broader community.…

We're back with the second post in our series on real-world #OpenTelemetry deployments. This time we get a look at how Adobe uses a three-tier Collector pipeline. Check out today's post for all the details!

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Three pillars becomes four.

The #OpenTelemetry project is excited to share that profiles are now alpha! With #OTel profiles, you get an industry-wide standard for production profiling, with true vendor neutrality and powered by community support.

Read more in our latest post!

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📣 Call for contributors! 📣

The #OpenTelemetry Kotlin SIG has begun active development and is looking for contributors. Join now and help drive the project forward!

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#KubeCon and CloudNativeCon EU is next week! If you'll be in Amsterdam, come say hi!

#OpenTelemetry will be in the Project Pavilion at booth 19A all day on Tuesday, March 24.

For the rest of the event, find us at the ad-hoc meeting tables right next to the Project Pavilion.

Hope to see you there!

Beyond the good first issue - How to make your contributions sustainable OpenTelemetry provides the tools and standards to collect metrics, logs, and traces from applications and services. Getting started with contributions can feel overwhelming, so here are some lessons…

Getting started in a large open source project can be hard, and we know #OpenTelemetry is no exception. We're working from several angles to improve the contributor experience.

Here's one: Our latest blog post gives you some good ideas for where to start and how to be successful.

How Mastodon Runs OpenTelemetry Collectors in Production At the beginning of 2025, the OpenTelemetry Developer Experience SIG published the results of its first community survey. One of the strongest themes was clear: teams want more real-world examples of…

🤔 Have you ever wondered how real organizations use the #OTel Collector in production?

Check out the new blog series by the Developer Experience SIG! These posts highlight end-user stories from a variety of industries, architectures, and company sizes. The first one is up today!

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Deprecating Span Events API OpenTelemetry is deprecating the Span Event API. This post explains why we’re making this change, what it means at a high level, and how you can prepare. In short: We want to remove confusion and…

‼️ #OpenTelemetry is deprecating the Span Events API.

Our aim is to remove the confusion caused by having overlapping ways to emit events: span events and log-based events.

Read our latest post to learn more about how you can prepare.

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Kubernetes attributes promoted to release candidate in OTel Semantic Conventions Over the past few months, the K8s (Kubernetes) Semantic Conventions SIG focused on stabilizing Kubernetes attributes used by OpenTelemetry Collector processors such as k8sattributes and…

📆 Happy Monday! Kubernetes attributes have been promoted to release candidate status!

Start your week off right by trying the new schema via feature gates.

Make our day by providing feedback to the #OpenTelemetry K8s Semantic Convention SIG.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon EU in Amsterdam from March 23 - 26, 2026. Register today to join us!…

🚨 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is fast approaching! Will we see you there?

Make sure to add #OpenTelemetry talks and events to your plans. We combed the event schedule so you don't have to!

Declarative configuration is stable! What happened? Key portions of the declarative configuration specification have been marked stable, including The JSON schema for the data model, as defined in opentelemetry-configuration which…

⏳️ Years in the making...

The #OpenTelemetry project is delighted to announce that declarative configuration is stable!

Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this momentous accomplishment!

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What's Up, OTel? It's us, your community managers! Hi, community! We are your newly appointed Community Managers. We’ve begun the initial transitional work behind the scenes, and we look forward to seeing more of you all in the very near future…

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Welcoming New Community Managers to OpenTelemetry Back in October 2022, I wrote about becoming OpenTelemetry’s first community manager. At the time, the project had just over 5000 contributors. Since then, those numbers have grown considerably –…

A passing of the torch. 🔥

Last month, #OpenTelemetry welcomed new Community Managers. The #OTel community has quadrupled in size under Austin's stewardship. We are grateful for his years of hard work and look forward to Reese, Adriana, and Julia's vision for the future!

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OTTL context inference comes to the Filter Processor Last year, the OpenTelemetry project introduced OTTL context inference for the transform processor. The goal was to allow users to write OTTL statements without worrying about internal telemetry…

In the latest release of the #OpenTelemetry Collector, the Filter Processor adds OTTL context inference. Before: writing filters required knowing the Collector’s internal telemetry hierarchy. Now: you can write a flat list using basic config. Want details? 👇️ 👇️

Missed today's OTel in Practice with Aviv Zohari? No problem! You can catch the recording on our YouTube channel. Special thanks also to Nikola Grcevski from the OBI SIG for joining us for the Q&A.

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🎉 OTel in Practice starts in just a few hours!

Come listen to Aviv Zohari talk about how they layer eBPF with OpenTelemetry for better observability.

⏰ Today at 5:00 PM UTC (that's 6:00 PM CET / 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT)
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#OpenTelemetry #eBPF #Observability

🔍 Want better observability? Join us for our upcoming OTel in Practice session with Aviv Zohari, as he walks us through how they layer eBPF with OTel for a powerful, context-rich observability.

📅 Feb 18, 5:00 PM UTC
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#OpenTelemetryLive #Observability #eBPF #CloudNative

📣 Today’s the day!

Join us for OTel in Practice: The OTel Collector — My Homelab Multitool.

If you’ve ever wanted a hands-on, practical look at how the OpenTelemetry Collector works beyond theory, this session is for you.

⏰ Starting soon.
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The Humans of OTel session for KubeCon NA 2025 is officially live 🎥

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In this edition, Diana Todea, Sophia Solomon, Trask Stalnaker, and Josh Lee share what OTel means to them.

If you'd like to be featured in the next one, catch us at KubeCon Europe 2026.

Got plans this Thursday, February 12 at 5:00 PM UTC (12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST)? No? Then this is your sign to block your calendar for our upcoming OTel in Practice session.

Josh Lee will be showing us how to centralize homelab telemetry using the OTel Collector.

Register today: buff.ly/C72axmS

For our first OTel in Practice session of the year, Josh Lee will show us how he uses the OTel collector in his homelab.

Perfect for anyone tired of juggling multiple telemetry tools.

📅 February 12
⏰️ 5:00 PM UTC/12:00 PM EST/9:00 AM PST

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🚀 OTel Unplugged EU 2026 is LIVE TOMORROW!
The #OpenTelemetry community is gathering in Brussels to: → Discuss real production challenges → Shape breakout topics together → Influence the 2026 roadmap
Follow #OTelUnplugged for highlights throughout the day!
#OpenSource #Observability #FOSDEM

OpenTelemetry Collector Follow-up Survey In 2024, the End User SIG conducted a Collector Survey to gather feedback on how the OpenTelemetry Collector is used in practice and the user experience. Insights from that survey informed several…

The #OpenTelemetry Collector is a critical component of using #OTel in production. To learn how organizations are deploying, configuring, and monitoring the Collector, we ran a survey in 2025. Read our latest blog post for all the details!

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OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation 2026 Goals As we kick off 2026, the OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation SIG has come together to set an ambitious roadmap for the year. Our focus is on achieving production readiness with a stable 1.0 release…

Following its launch in 2025, the #OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) project is planning for an exciting 2026! Read our latest post to learn about the project's goals and how you can get involved with OBI.

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Improving Async Workflow Observability in Dapr This post tells the story of how contributors from across the cloud native community worked together to enhance Dapr’s OpenTelemetry integration, particularly around asynchronous workflows. It also…

#OTel is for everyone...even other open source projects! Find out how #Dapr contributors improved tracing observability with #OpenTelemetry.

Reducing Log Volume with the OpenTelemetry Log Deduplication Processor Your logs are probably at least 80% repetitive noise. Connection retries, health checks, heartbeat messages: the same log line repeated thousands of times per minute. You pay storage costs for each…

You're collecting an enormous volume of logs. These logs are taking up space, network bandwidth, and backend processing capacity. And you wonder how much valuable insight you're gaining from them.

Sound familiar? Let us introduce you to the log deduplication processor.

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🚨 Less than 2 weeks until OTel Unplugged EU!
We're nearly at capacity. If you're still thinking about it, stop thinking and register 😅
Feb 2 in Brussels. Last chance: buff.ly/aaUyQsx
#OpenTelemetry #FOSDEM

OpenTelemetry JS Statement on Node.js DOS Mitigation You may have seen a recent Node.js security advisory and related coverage discussing a potential denial-of-service issue involving async_hooks. OpenTelemetry (and other APM tools) were mentioned…

Read the statement from #OpenTelemetry about the Node.js denial-of-service issue reported recently. 👇

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Demystifying OpenTelemetry: Why You Shouldn’t Fear Observability in Traditional Environments For decades, traditional technology environments, ranging from on-premises data centers to legacy applications and industrial control systems, have powered the core of many organizations. These…

On-premises data centers, legacy apps, industrial control systems. These are just some of the traditional environments presenting challenges to implementing modern observability. In our latest blog post, learn how to make formerly opaque systems observable with #OpenTelemetry.

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