A 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…

604 DevOps and SRE posts reach for that night anyway — 399 of them in the first line, and 18 independently chose 2:47am. Then we asked an LLM for 100 openings of its own.

If 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…

KubeCon + 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…

The 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...

I am not a native English speaker and that’s why I used AI to answer your questions. I keep seeing this, or a version of it, on issues and PRs. Reading it over and over again, especially when written ...

If 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…

The OpenTelemetry Spring Boot starter gained declarative-configuration support starting in version 2.26.0 — the same YAML schema the Java agent introduced in late 2025, now embedded inside…

Why OpenTelemetry for Dart and Flutter? Dart is a full-stack language and the language of Flutter, one of the most popular frameworks for building cross-platform applications. Data shows over 20% of…

Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that OpenTelemetry has graduated. Graduation is an important milestone for the project and reflects the strength of the OpenTelemetry…

A while back I was exploring an open source project I was using, and interested in contributing to, as it provided capabilities I needed but missed some additional ones I wanted to have. Naturally, I ...

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon aff...

Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

“What’s your favorite telemetry signal” has been the last question of the Humans of OpenTelemetry series for the last few years. At KubeCon EU 2024 my answer to this was “profiling, because I think th...

A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future.

People always say there are no stupid questions, and then you read the title of this post and you’re not so sure anymore. You start to doubt my sanity, or at least suspect that I’m a troll. However, a...