Blog
Declarative configuration is stable!
Thursday, March 05, 2026 in 2026
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 released a stable 1.0.0 release The YAML representation …
OTTL context inference comes to the Filter Processor
Monday, March 02, 2026 in 2026
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 contexts. Starting with collector-contrib v0.146.0, …
What's Up, OTel? It's us, your community managers!
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 in 2026
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 (KubeCon EU, anyone?). With great power comes great …
Welcoming New Community Managers to OpenTelemetry
Friday, February 06, 2026 in 2026
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 – almost 20,000 people have contributed to …
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
Monday, February 02, 2026 in 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! Read on to learn about all the events related to …
OpenTelemetry Collector Follow-up Survey
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 in 2026
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 development and prioritization decisions within the …
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation 2026 Goals
Friday, January 23, 2026 in 2026
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 while expanding protocol and language support to …
Improving Async Workflow Observability in Dapr
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 in 2026
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 highlights the ongoing effort to align Dapr …
Reducing Log Volume with the OpenTelemetry Log Deduplication Processor
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 in 2026
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 one while the signal drowns in noise. The …
OpenTelemetry JS Statement on Node.js DOS Mitigation
Thursday, January 15, 2026 in 2026
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 because we rely on AsyncLocalStorage for context …