Don't Wrap OpenTelemetry — You're Probably Hurting More Than Helping
There’s a pattern I’ve seen across many teams adopting OpenTelemetry, and it’s well-intentioned every single time. An engineer wants to make things easier for the team. They bui...
Deprecating OpenCensus compatibility requirements
On June 12, 2026, the OpenTelemetry Specification project merged PR #5138, deprecating OpenCensus compatibility requirements in the specification. This change updates the specif...
OTel-Arrow Phase 2: From Efficient Transport to Efficient Telemetry Pipelines
Phase 1 of OTel-Arrow established OTAP, the OpenTelemetry Arrow Protocol, as an efficient transport protocol for OpenTelemetry. Apache Arrow is a language-independent, columnar...
OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project
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...
Applying OpenTelemetry Security Practices in Legacy Environments
OpenTelemetry is gaining traction in manufacturing and other legacy environments as organizations explore modern observability approaches. However, applying these practices in t...
Inside the LLM Call: GenAI Observability with OpenTelemetry
Your AI agent just took 45 seconds to answer a simple question. Was it the model? A slow tool call? A retry loop? Every time an application calls an LLM, a chain of model calls,...
Introducing OTel Blueprints and Reference Implementations
It’s not uncommon for end users adopting OpenTelemetry to, at some point in their journey, ask themselves: “Why is this stuff so complex?”. Full adoption normally requires under...
Introducing the Ecosystem Explorer Project
OpenTelemetry is vast. The Java agent alone includes over 240 different auto-instrumentations. The Collector has hundreds of components. Python, JavaScript, Go, and .NET each ha...
OpenTelemetry Japanese Community Survey
This report presents findings from the OpenTelemetry Japanese Community Survey, conducted to understand the current landscape of OTel awareness, adoption, and community engageme...