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OpenTelemetry Contribfest at KubeCon North America 2023
Monday, November 13, 2023 in 2023
This year marked many milestones for the OpenTelemetry project. The project achieved the goals it had set in 2019 by announcing the general availability of of the logging signal, the last of the signals it had originally committed to. In addition, …
Experience Report: Adopting OpenTelemetry for Metrics in Cloud Foundry
Wednesday, November 08, 2023 in 2023
OTel integration! Cloud Foundry recently integrated the OpenTelemetry Collector for metrics egress and we learned a lot along the way. We’re excited about what the integration offers today and all the possibilities it opens up for us. What we …
Tyk API Gateway's Native OpenTelemetry Integration
Tuesday, November 07, 2023 in 2023
OTel integration! We’re excited to announce that Tyk API Gateway has first-class support for OpenTelemetry, with native instrumentation built directly into the gateway. With Tyk’s native OpenTelemetry support, developers and API platform …
OpenTelemetry Demo 1.6 released
Tuesday, November 07, 2023 in 2023
The OpenTelemetry Demo has been updated to version 1.6, and introduces alpha support for the OpenTelemetry Log signal! Our thoughts on logs Why are we considering logging support to be in alpha? There are a few reasons. The most important is that …
OpenTelemetry Integrations Welcome!
Monday, November 06, 2023 in 2023
OTel integration! Embracing OpenTelemetry’s vision, we are committed to enabling high-quality telemetry throughout the entire software stack! We’re thrilled to see an expanding collection of libraries, services, and apps integrating …
HTTP semantic conventions declared stable
Monday, November 06, 2023 in 2023
Early this year, we launched an effort to stabilize HTTP semantic conventions. Today, we proudly announce that the HTTP semantic conventions are the first OpenTelemetry semantic conventions to be declared stable! This inaugural stable v1.23.0 …
OpenTelemetry in Focus, October 2023
Wednesday, November 01, 2023 in 2023
Welcome back to OpenTelemetry in Focus for October, 2023! It’s been another busy month as we prepare for KubeCon North America in Chicago. We’ve got a lot to talk about once we’re there, and we’re excited to see you all in …
Announcing the 2023 Governance Committee Election Results
Friday, October 27, 2023 in 2023
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 …
Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) State of the Nation 2023
Monday, October 23, 2023 in 2023
Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) is the emerging open standard to manage a fleet of telemetry agents at scale. In 2022, Splunk donated OpAMP to the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, with initial feedback from observIQ, based on observIQ’s custom …
OTel End User Working Group Presents: The Future of Observability Panel Discussion
Saturday, October 21, 2023 in 2023
OpenTelemetry has greatly impacted the Observability landscape over the past few years. While it introduces an open standard for telemetry generation and collection, what is actually improving the lives of Observability teams? Guests David Wynn, …