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OpenTelemetry Japanese Community Survey
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 in 2026
This report presents findings from the OpenTelemetry Japanese Community Survey, conducted to understand the current landscape of OTel awareness, adoption, and community engagement among developers and engineers in Japan. The survey targeted …
Deprecating OpenTracing compatibility requirements
Thursday, April 23, 2026 in 2026
On March 19, 2026, the OpenTelemetry Specification project merged PR #4938, deprecating OpenTracing compatibility requirements in the specification. This change updates the specification to match where the ecosystem already is: OpenTracing has been …
How Skyscanner scales OpenTelemetry: managing collectors across 24 production clusters
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 in 2026
The Developer Experience SIG is publishing a series of blog posts featuring real-world OpenTelemetry deployments from companies across different industries and scales. This post features Skyscanner, a global travel search platform based in Edinburgh, …
OpenTelemetry Accepted Elastic's PHP Distro Donation
Thursday, April 16, 2026 in 2026
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 where contributors can help next. Why this donation …
OBI Gives Incident Response the Request Context It Needs
Friday, April 10, 2026 in 2026
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 HTTP header enrichment so spans can carry request …
Inside Adobe's OpenTelemetry pipeline: simplicity at scale
Wednesday, April 08, 2026 in 2026
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. This post features Adobe, a global software company …
OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha
Thursday, March 26, 2026 in 2026
Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that …
New OpenTelemetry Kotlin SDK
Monday, March 23, 2026 in 2026
Following a donation from Embrace and a call for contributors, OpenTelemetry now has a Kotlin SDK in active development. The project is looking for contributors and folks who are interested in using the library in their application. Why launch …
Beyond the good first issue - How to make your contributions sustainable
Thursday, March 19, 2026 in 2026
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 from hands-on experience. Most guides explain how …
How Mastodon Runs OpenTelemetry Collectors in Production
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 in 2026
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 how the OpenTelemetry SDKs and the OpenTelemetry …