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🗳️ The 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election is underway! If you haven't voted yet, there's still time to help shape the future of the project. ✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/ufu6qP0 🗳️ Vote here: buff.ly/r5f4A8t Voting closes Oct 28, end of day Anywhere on Earth (Oct 29, 11:59 UTC).

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The OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) has reached v1! Starting with Collector Contrib v0.164.0, OTTL is stable for traces, metrics, and logs, with backward compatibility guarantees for its syntax, standard functions, and Go API throughout 1.x. buff.ly/uefcxdf

buff.lyOpenTelemetry Transformation Language reaches v1The OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) is now v1. Starting with opentelemetry-collector-contrib v0.164.0, OTTL is stable for traces, metrics, and logs. The release of v1 means OTTL meets…
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Maintainers keep #OpenTelemetry moving, from reviewing contributions to shipping releases and mentoring contributors. Our latest blog post explores why #OTel needs more maintainers, how companies benefit from supporting them, and what it takes to become one. buff.ly/2FG2qfN

buff.lyThe case for OpenTelemetry maintainershipI believe OpenTelemetry’s primary constraint isn’t ideas, code contributions, or adoption, but maintainers. About me I’ve been working on OpenTelemetry since early 2021. I’m a maintainer of…
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Interested in getting more involved with the OpenTelemetry community? In this episode of the “How to Contribute to OpenTelemetry” series, Abhi Narwal talks about how Special Interest Groups (SIGs) organize work across the project and how you can start participating! Watch now: buff.ly/Le3en6x

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Do you use #OpenTelemetry’s registry or lists of vendors, distributions, integrations, and adopters? We’re reviewing their future and want to hear from you. Our latest blog explains how to share your feedback. Tell us which pages you use and what you’d miss if they went away. buff.ly/xDn4PoG

buff.lyHelp us understand how you use OpenTelemetry's ecosystem listsDo you use OpenTelemetry’s registry or ecosystem lists? Comment on the issue and tell us which pages you need and why. We are reviewing the future of these pages. Understanding how people use them…
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#OpenTelemetry has updated its versioning policy to deliver necessary security fixes in minor and patch releases while preserving public API compatibility. Learn more in our latest blog post. buff.ly/AWX4WB1

buff.lyStrengthening OpenTelemetry security while preserving API stabilityOpenTelemetry has updated its client versioning policy to make room for security fixes that need to change behavior. Stable SDKs and Contrib components, such as instrumentation libraries and…
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Heading to #KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America? Plan your #OpenTelemetry activities with our guide to talks, maintainer sessions, and opportunities to connect with the community at the Project Pavilion and OTel Contribfest. buff.ly/0eYmFcX

buff.lyJoin us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2026The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City from November 9 - 12, 2026. Register today to…
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🎥 Missed our latest OTel in Practice session? The recording is now available! Diana Todea talked to us about the work of the Localization SIG and how to contribute. If you've been wondering how to get involved in the project without writing code, give it a watch! ▶️ Watch here: buff.ly/JqMWyd0

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Humans of OpenTelemetryが初めて日本にやってきました！ Meet five practitioners who attended KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026. They share how they discovered #OpenTelemetry, what observability means to them, and which telemetry signals they turn to. buff.ly/EguNb8T

buff.lyThe Humans of OpenTelemetry - KubeCon Japan 2026We’re back with our fifth edition of Humans of OpenTelemetry, and for the first time, from Japan! At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 in Yokohama, I interviewed OpenTelemetry end users and…
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With Contrib v0.160.0, you can opt into RC process metrics through a feature gate, using your existing hostmetrics configuration. Learn which metric names and attributes are changing, how to test them with your dashboards, and how to share feedback before they become stable. buff.ly/hKiRHKp

buff.lyVersioned metrics: Shipping the first Release Candidate metrics in hostmetricsOpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.160.0 adds the ability to emit release candidate (RC) process semantic conventions metrics to the hostmetrics receiver’s process scraper, the last stage before a…
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Tomorrow, we'll be talking about how to contribute to OpenTelemetry without writing a single line of code. Diana Todea of the Localization SIG will share what localization work actually looks like and what turns a first-time contributor into a regular one. 🔗 buff.ly/fB1hDli 📅 Oct 13 | 9 AM PDT

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Give your users the freedom to choose their observability stack. Our latest blog post explores how to build #OpenTelemetry-native telemetry export into your product, with practical guidance on OTLP, signal routing, and Collector architecture. buff.ly/Yrkr3IV

buff.lyOTel-Native by Design - Building Products That Export to Any Observability StackIf you’re building self-hosted software or a SaaS product, your users will eventually ask to send logs, traces, and metrics to their own…
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"I'm not a developer, so I can't contribute to open source." Ever thought that about OpenTelemetry? In this OTel in Practice session, Diana Todea (Localization SIG Maintainer) shows us what Localization SIGs do and that there's more to contributing than code. 📅 Oct 13 | 9 AM PDT 🔗 buff.ly/fB1hDli

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It’s been two years since we last surveyed users about OTel + Prometheus interoperability. That’s two years of both projects working to close the gaps. So, has the experience actually gotten better? We ran the survey again to find out. 👀 Read the results → buff.ly/LLf7vyi

buff.lyPrometheus and OpenTelemetry interoperability in 2026: Survey resultsWe ran a survey asking users of OpenTelemetry and Prometheus how they collect, process, and store metrics. The goal was to understand, with real usage data rather than assumptions, how far the…
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Nominations are open for the 3rd annual OpenTelemetry Community Awards! It’s been a momentous year: #OpenTelemetry became a graduated CNCF project, thanks to the dedication of our community. Take a moment to nominate five people who you think made a difference. buff.ly/kZ5m2jI

buff.lyOpenTelemetry Community Awards 2026We are delighted to announce the 3rd annual OpenTelemetry Community Awards this year! This project and its newly minted status as a graduated CNCF project would not be possible without many, many…
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In just a few days, Amy Super(star) will show us what the Contributor Experience SIG has been up to! 👀 She'll be sharing some of the research the SIG has been working on, along with tips on how to get your foot in the door and start contributing to OTel. Sign up now: buff.ly/6eCrCkv

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Join us for the next What’s New in OTel? session, where Amy Super from the Contributor Experience SIG will share insights from research into how people contribute to OpenTelemetry, including ways to contribute beyond code. 📅 September 30 🕙 10 AM PDT | 7 PM CEST Register: buff.ly/6eCrCkv

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We are excited to announce the 2026 OTel GC election. Nominations are due by 2026-10-16 23:59 AoE. List of eligible candidates will be shared 2026-10-19. Voting will take place between 2026-10-26 12:00 UTC & 2026-10-28 end of day AoE. Results will be announced 2026-10-30. buff.ly/4BhGWKt

buff.lyAnnouncing the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee ElectionThe OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by 16 October 2026 23:59 AoE. The list of eligible candidates will be…
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Dual-exporting .NET metrics with OTLP and Prometheus. The latest OTel Prometheus exporter for .NET lets you export your metrics to both systems in parallel, and migrate without a single cut-over event. buff.ly/FhOnXkD

buff.lyDual-exporting .NET metrics with OTLP and PrometheusMany applications export their metrics directly to Prometheus. If you’re unfamiliar with Prometheus, in a nutshell it’s a time-series database for storing metrics, like counters and histograms.…
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Have you ever wanted to contribute to OpenTelemetry but didn't know how to get started? Check out the first video in the series, "How to Contributed to OpenTelemetry", brought to you by the Contributor Experience SIG. Thank you Abhi Narwal for the contribution! buff.ly/6iMgSHo

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Missed our latest OTel in Practice session? 🎥 We had Jose Gomez-Selles walk through the process of creating custom metrics, spans, and logs to better understand critical application workflows. ▶️ Watch the recording: buff.ly/saQRb2M

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Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation. The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable. buff.ly/cKwKa7v

opentelemetry.ioHelp us stabilize environment variable context propagationA trace does not always cross a network boundary. A workflow runner starts a shell, the shell launches a build tool, and the build tool starts test processes. Batch and data-processing systems create…
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OpenTelemetry Go v1.47.0-rc.1 is here. This release promotes the Logs API & SDK to release candidate, the final stage before we provide stable v1 compatibility guarantees. We believe the design is ready, and now we need the community to test it! Read the blog: buff.ly/pjtFrob

opentelemetry.ioOpenTelemetry Go Logs API and SDK reach release candidate statusOpenTelemetry Go v1.47.0-rc.1 is here. This release promotes the Logs API and SDK to release candidate (RC), the final stage before we provide stable v1 compatibility guarantees. We believe the…
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Tomorrow, we’re rolling up our sleeves with Jose Gomez-Selles of VictoriaMetrics as he shows us a hands-on approach to manual instrumentation that produces cleaner, more useful telemetry. Still time to grab a spot: buff.ly/ax21hRO 🕙 10 AM PDT · 1 PM EDT · 6 PM WAT/BST

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For our next OTel in Practice, Jose Gómez-Sellés (Product Lead at VictoriaMetrics Cloud) will walk us through a practical guide on OpenTelemetry manual instrumentation, or as he puts it, "how to produce clean observability by getting your hands dirty." 🔗: buff.ly/ax21hRO 📅 Sept 1 | 10 AM PDT

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Mark your calendars for our latest What's New in OTel, happening tomorrow! Michele Mancioppi will share updates from the Packaging SIG: zero-touch instrumentation, the new Linux auto-instrumentation system packages, and what these mean for OTel adoption. 🕙 10 AM PDT Register: buff.ly/ZLNPsDS

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So, what's new in OTel? A lot, actually. This time, Michele Mancioppi, Packaging SIG Maintainer will be unpacking (pun intended) zero-touch instrumentation and what it means for OTel adoption. Register here: 🔗 buff.ly/ZLNPsDS 📅 Aug 26 | 10 AM PDT · 1 PM EDT · 6 PM BST · 7 PM CEST · 10:30 PM IST

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Join us for another exciting edition of OTel in Practice. This time we're hosting OpenChoreo maintainers, Akila Induranga and Nilushan Costa. They'll break down how OpenChoreo built its observability plane on the OpenTelemetry Collector. 🗓️ Aug 20 ⏰ 9 AM PDT Register today: 🔗 buff.ly/jPEJKJ0

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Metrics, logs & traces tell you how systems behave. Entity events tell you what exists: a live bi-temporal graph of your infrastructure, with relationships now in the spec. This blog walks through building a consumer, from event-sourced storage to a queryable graph: buff.ly/QBrp1SC

opentelemetry.ioWhat can you do with OpenTelemetry entity events?Metrics, logs, and traces tell you how your systems behave. They are much quieter about what actually exists: which hosts, interfaces, switches, services, and volumes are out there right now, and,…
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High-cardinality metrics can quietly become a memory problem. What should an SDK do when metric attribute combinations keep growing? This blog post explains the tradeoffs behind cardinality limits and how the SDK handles overflow while keeping memory bounded. Read it here: buff.ly/oLUfs7a

opentelemetry.ioMetric cardinality limits in OpenTelemetry: a practical guideOpenTelemetry metrics are designed to be safe to use in production. One part of that safety is the cardinality limit in the metrics SDK. The limit protects your process from unbounded memory growth…
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The OpenTelemetry Demo 3.0 is out, and yes, we broke it! In this blog post we share the highlights of what changed in the 3.0 release. And if you're a vendor using the Demo to showcase your OTel support, here's your call to action: Please update your instructions. buff.ly/gSt6uFX

opentelemetry.ioWe broke the OTel demoIf you’ve been running the Demo for some time, you may have seen a couple of structural changes lately, and you may even have gotten mad about things not working as expected. We feel your pain and we…
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Heading to Yokohama next week? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan runs July 28-30, and we've collected every OpenTelemetry session in one place. Community Day kicks things off on the 28th. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/ku...

opentelemetry.ioOpenTelemetry @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan takes place July 28-30, 2026, in Yokohama, Japan. Register today to join us! Here are all the OpenTelemetry-related sessions, up to date at the time of writing. Session…
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Instrumenting apps on plain Linux hosts meant downloading agents by hand and wiring up env vars. Not anymore. The new OTel Packaging SIG shipped its first repo: the Injector plus auto-instrumentation for Java, .NET, Node.js and Python, as system packages. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/pa...

opentelemetry.ioOne-command OpenTelemetry setup on Linux hostsOpenTelemetry as system dependency Setting up OpenTelemetry for your applications and systems depends on where those apps and systems run. Some are very automated, especially Kubernetes, thanks to…
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Lambda expressions land in OTTL! Eight new (experimental) higher-order functions, Filter, MapEach, MapKeys, Any, All, Find, Reduce, and When, let you pass inline logic to transform collections concisely. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/la...

opentelemetry.ioLambda-powered functions land in OTTLAs telemetry pipelines become more sophisticated, so do the transformations they need to perform: sanitizing sensitive data, normalizing inconsistent schemas, and enforcing attribute contracts. While…
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📢 OpenTelemetry community: all Zoom meetings are moving to the LFX Project Control Center. Please update your calendars. Issues or questions? Comment on the tracking issue or ask in #opentelemetry on CNCF Slack. 🔗 github.com/open-telemet...

github.comMigration of Zoom meetings to Linux Foundation Project Control Center · Issue #3548 · open-telemetry/communityThe CNCF has reached out to us to migrate our existing Zoom meetings to Linux Foundation Project Control Center. Extract of the message received: We are reaching out regarding the global deprecatio...
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OpenTelemetry Swift is deprecating CocoaPods support. Swift Package Manager (SPM) is now the recommended install method. Existing integrations keep working, but CocoaPods support ends Dec 2, 2026. New features and fixes will be SPM-only, so plan your migration. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/ot...

opentelemetry.ioCocoaPods Deprecation Notice for OpenTelemetry SwiftAs it was announced via CocoaPods Support Plan and via CocoaPods Spec Repository, CocoaPods is transitioning their project to maintenance mode, and cocoapods trunk is going to be read-only in a few…
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Go Compile-Time Instrumentation just hit v1! 🎉 Add OpenTelemetry to your Go services with zero code changes. Swap go build for otelc go build and get automatic instrumentation for your app, dependencies & the standard library. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/go...

opentelemetry.ioAnnouncing v1 of OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time InstrumentationIf you write Java, Python, Node.js, or .NET, you have been able to add OpenTelemetry to an application without editing its code for years: attach an agent at startup and telemetry starts flowing. Go…
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The OpenTelemetry End User SIG now has an APAC-friendly meeting! 🎉 We're expanding our meeting options to make it easier for more community members to participate. You can find the meeting details here: buff.ly/NGdjTHD If the APAC time works better for you, you're welcome to join.

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