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The Humans of OpenTelemetry - KubeCon NA 2024
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We’re back with our third edition of Humans of OpenTelemetry, this time from KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Once again, Reese Lee and I interviewed OpenTelemetry contributors and end users (and each other!), and learned how they got involved with OTel: Hazel Weakly (The Nivenly...
on Dec 20
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Insights from the OpenTelemetry Docs Usability Survey
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The OpenTelemetry End-User SIG recently surveyed the community to find out how user-friendly OpenTelemetry’s documentation is. In an earlier survey, two-thirds of respondents named comprehensive documentation as a top resource they wished they’d had when getting started with OpenTelemetry. So we...
on Dec 19
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As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on the year and share some insights and accomplishments from SIG Communications, the team responsible for managing this website, blog, and documentation. Key achievements of 2024 Several key accomplishments stand out in our efforts to make OpenTelemetry...
on Dec 17
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Collecting OpenTelemetry-compliant Java logs from files
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If you want to get logs from your Java application ingested into an OpenTelemetry-compatible logs backend, the easiest and recommended way is using an OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) exporter. However, some scenarios require logs to be output to files or stdout due to organizational or reliability...
on Dec 9
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OpenTelemetry for Generative AI
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As organizations increasingly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative AI technologies, ensuring reliable performance, efficiency, and safety is essential to meet user expectations, optimize resource costs, and safeguard against unintended outputs. Effective observability for AI...
on Dec 5
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A language-specific implementation of OpenTelemetry in JavaScript (for Node.js & the browser).
on Nov 29
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OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions 1.28.0
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The Semantic Conventions define a common set of (semantic) attributes which provide meaning to data when collecting, producing and consuming it. The Semantic Conventions specify among other things span names and kind, metric instruments and units as well as attribute names, types, meaning and...
on Nov 24
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Announcing 2024 OpenTelemetry Community Awards Winners
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We are excited to announce the winners of the first-ever OpenTelemetry Community Awards! These awards recognize individuals who have made a notable impact to OpenTelemetry project over the past year, whether it’s through code, documentation, project management, outreach, adoption, or simply...
on Nov 20
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CICD Pipeline Attributes This group describes attributes specific to pipelines within a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) system. A pipeline in this case is a series of steps that are performed in order to deliver a new version of software. This aligns with the Britannica...
on Nov 7
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A little over six months ago, OpenTelemetry announced support for the profiling signal. While the signal is still in development and isn’t yet recommended for production use, the Profiling SIG has made substantial progress on many fronts. This post provides a summary of the progress the...
on Nov 5
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2024 OpenTelemetry Community Awards
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OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code, documentation, project management, outreach, adoption, or simply helping others answer technical...
on Nov 4
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Announcing the 2024 Governance Committee Election Results
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We are delighted to announce the results of the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election! The OpenTelemetry project continues to bring together an exceptionally vibrant community, who are shaping the future of observability with their contributions. This year, active contributors have...
on Oct 24
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Announcing the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election Candidates
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The OpenTelemetry election committee is excited to announce the final list of candidates for the upcoming 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election! If you are an eligible voter, you’ll have the opportunity to continue shaping the future of OpenTelemetry by casting your vote between 21...
on Oct 18
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The OpenTelemetry Spring Boot starter is now stable
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We’re proud to announce that the OpenTelemetry Spring Boot starter is now stable. The Spring Boot starter is a powerful tool that simplifies the process of instrumenting Spring Boot applications with OpenTelemetry. It provides a lightweight, flexible alternative to the OpenTelemetry Java agent,...
on Sep 30
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OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow in Production
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The OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow (OTel-Arrow) project’s exporter and receiver components for the OpenTelemetry Collector are now included in OpenTelemetry Collector-Contrib releases. This is a case study of our experience deploying OpenTelemetry Collectors using OTel-Arrow components...
on Sep 25
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Behind the scenes of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee
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As a principal engineer at Grafana Labs, my focus is on OpenTelemetry: writing code or maintaining OTel Collector components and tooling, helping out with our recent security audit, and building bridges between people with similar ideas — all with the ultimate goal of helping the OTel community,...
on Sep 11
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Announcing the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
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The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by 11 October 2024 23:59 UTC. The list of eligible candidates will be shared on 14 October 2024. Voting will take place between 21 October 2024 00:00 UTC and 23 October...
on Sep 3
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Insights from the Prometheus Compatibility Survey
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Prometheus and OpenTelemetry are two of the most active and popular projects in the CNCF observability landscape. The two communities have been working together since the early days of OpenTelemetry to improve the compatibility between the two projects. The OpenTelemetry Prometheus SIG has been...
on Aug 13
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Insights from the OpenTelemetry Getting Started Survey
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Getting started with new technologies can be hard, which is why we try to meet our end-users where they are. As a part of that goal, the OpenTelemetry End-User SIG recently surveyed the community to find out how we can best help our users get started with OpenTelemetry. The 104 responses we...
on Jun 26
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Elastic Contributes its Continuous Profiling Agent to OpenTelemetry
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Following significant collaboration between Elastic and OpenTelemetry’s profiling community, which included a thorough review process, we’re excited to announce that the OpenTelemetry project has accepted Elastic’s donation of its continuous profiling agent. This marks a significant milestone in...
on Jun 25
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The Humans OpenTelemetry - KubeCon EU 2024
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We’re back with our second edition of Humans of OpenTelemetry, this time from KubeCon EU in Paris. Once again, Reese Lee and I interviewed OpenTelemetry contributors and end users, and learned how they got involved with OTel: Iris Dyrmishi (Miro) Severin Neumann (Cisco) Kayla Reopelle (New...
on Jun 25
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Observability at the Edge: New OTel features in Envoy and Istio
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In the dynamic world of cloud-native and distributed applications, managing microservices effectively is critical. Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, enabling seamless deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. The distributed nature...
on Jun 11
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Security vulnerability in OTel Collector confighttp and configgrpc (CVE-2024-36129)
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On our path toward graduation, the OpenTelemetry project is currently undergoing a security audit sponsored by the CNCF, facilitated by OSTIF, and performed by 7ASecurity. During this process, we have received a few ideas about things that we could do better, like using specific compiler flags...
on Jun 9
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An Introduction to Observability for LLM-based applications using OpenTelemetry
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are really popular right now, especially considering the wide range of applications that they have from simple chatbots to Copilot bots that are helping software engineers write code. Seeing the growing use of LLMs in production, it’s important for users to learn how...
on Jun 6
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Abandoned Go Contrib modules need code owners or will be removed
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The Go SIG will remove the code of contrib modules that lack code owners starting August 21, 2024. Published packages and releases will be marked as deprecated, though they’ll remain available for download. Currently unowned modules include the...
on May 29
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OpenTelemetry Java Metrics Performance Comparison
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Arguably the biggest value proposition of OpenTelemetry is that it aims to be a language agnostic, general purpose observability standard. By providing tools for traces, metrics, and logs (and profiling coming soon!), and implementations across many popular languages, OpenTelemetry reduces the...
on May 27
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Introducing the new container log parser for OpenTelemetry Collector
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Filelog receiver is one of the most commonly used components of the OpenTelemetry Collector, as indicated by the most recent survey. According to the same survey, it’s unsurprising that Kubernetes is the leading platform for Collector deployment (80.6%). Based on these two facts, we can realize...
on May 24
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Things You Might Not Have Known About the OpenTelemetry Operator - An OTel Operator Q&A
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The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Operator is a Kubernetes Operator that manages OTel for you in your Kubernetes cluster to make life a little easier. It does the following: Manages deployment of the OpenTelemetry Collector, supported by the OpenTelemetryCollector custom resource (CR). Manages the...
on May 17
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Insights from the OpenTelemetry Collector Survey
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The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector has become a cornerstone tool for observing and monitoring modern software applications. Recently, the End User SIG conducted a survey to gather feedback from users about their experiences with the OTel Collector. While we acknowledge that the 186 responses we...
on May 13
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The roadmap to v1 for the OpenTelemetry Collector
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The OpenTelemetry Collector is a very popular component in OpenTelemetry that has been under heavy development for quite some time. It is a binary that allows many formats of telemetry to be sent to it, transformed, and emitted to a destination. Much has been said about the Collector over the...
on May 8
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Status: Stable, Feature-Freeze Overview Cross-cutting concerns send their state to the next process using Propagators, which are defined as objects used to read and write context data to and from messages exchanged by the applications. Each concern creates a set of Propagators for every...
on Apr 17
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Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
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The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe and at the co-located Observability Day in Paris from March 19 - 22, 2024. Read on to learn about all the things related OpenTelemetry during...
on Mar 12
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OpenTelemetry Collector Antipatterns
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The OpenTelemetry Collector is one of my favorite OpenTelemetry (OTel) components. It’s a flexible and powerful data pipeline which allows you to ingest OTel data from one or more sources, transform it (including batching, filtering, and masking), and export it to one or more observability...
on Mar 2
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Find libraries, plugins, integrations, and other useful tools for using and extending OpenTelemetry.
on Jan 25
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What a year it has been for OpenTelemetry! The OTel Demo turned 1, the OpenTelemetry project announced general availability of the OpenTelemetry specification, Trace-Based Testing was added to the OTel Demo, we saw some exciting OTel integrations, and let’s not forget how we had not one, but TWO...
on Dec 22, 2023
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Receive any custom metric with the OpenTelemetry Collector
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While OpenTelemetry (OTel) is here to help you with troubleshooting and handling the “unknown unknowns”, it is also instrumental for managing route tasks like monitoring system metrics, like disk usage, server availability or SSL certificate expiration dates. This can be achieved by utilizing...
on Dec 1, 2023
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Announcing the 2023 Governance Committee Election Results
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The OpenTelemetry project is proud to announce the winners of the 2023 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election! Before we get into the results, I’d like to share some statistics about the election! This year, 616 project members were eligible to vote. Of those, 206 cast ballots, for a...
on Oct 27, 2023
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Final list of candidates for the 2023 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee
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The OpenTelemetry election committee is pleased to announce the final list of candidates running for one of the four available seats. We encourage all voters to take a moment and review all candidates, picking the one that best represents your interest. You can find their pictures, profile link,...
on Oct 19, 2023
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Announcing the 2023 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
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The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2023 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by end-of-day on 13 October 2023. The list of eligible candidates will be shared on 16 October 2023. Voting will take place between 23 October 2023 and 25 October 2023,...
on Oct 2, 2023