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Thursday, November 12, 2026 in 2026
Instrumenting a GenAI framework means finding suitable extension points, mapping its operations to OpenTelemetry semantic conventions, testing the result, and maintaining it as the framework changes. Doing that for each new framework takes …
Wednesday, November 11, 2026 in 2026
OpenTelemetry is returning to FOSDEM! After this year’s resounding success of OTel Unplugged at FOSDEM 2026, we’re excited to announce that OTel Unplugged will be returning to FOSDEM in 2027!! What is OTel Unplugged? OTel Unplugged is an …
Wednesday, November 11, 2026 in 2026
Batching in the OpenTelemetry Collector is a process that ensures requests are the right size for the exporter, large enough to improve compression and amortize round-trip latency, but not so large as to exceed limits. Batching combines a number of …
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 in 2026
An empty dashboard can mean that nothing happened. It can also mean that the system stopped reporting what happened. On a dashboard, they look the same. One needs no action. The other means you are missing the information you need to act. Take a …
Thursday, November 05, 2026 in 2026
OpenTelemetry JavaScript has released SDK 3.0 (stable v3.0.0 packages and experimental v0.300.0 packages) and API 1.10.0. Migration guide For a detailed description of breaking changes, see the OpenTelemetry JS SDK 3.x migration guide. What is JS SDK …
Monday, November 02, 2026 in 2026
As part of an ongoing series, the Developer Experience SIG interviews organizations about their real-world OpenTelemetry deployments to share practical lessons with the broader community. This post features Keycloak, a CNCF project, and looks at the …
Friday, October 30, 2026 in 2026
We’re excited to announce v1.0.0 of OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation—OBI! OBI brings OpenTelemetry observability to running Linux applications without requiring changes to their source code. It uses eBPF, together with runtime-specific …
Thursday, October 29, 2026 in 2026
There are many reasons for building your own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution. The existing distributions are designed to be broadly useful, which means they include many more components than what an individual deployment uses. Building your own …
Thursday, October 29, 2026 in 2026
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election! The OpenTelemetry project continues to bring together an exceptionally vibrant community, who are shaping the future of observability with their …
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 in 2026
If you run the File Log receiver with a storage extension, the Collector writes a checkpoint every time it polls your log files. That checkpoint is how the receiver remembers where it stopped reading, so a restart does not lose or duplicate logs. For …