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Level up your #OTel knowledge with the #OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA) exam from the Linux Foundation. Whether you're a newcomer or experienced user, preparing for this exam will strengthen your observability fundamentals and reinforce best practices. Details on our blog!
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Is the OTCA Exam Right for You? Insights for Both Newcomers and Advanced Users
In the IT industry, certifications often generate debate – some regard them as essential career milestones, while others question their practical value. While OpenTelemetry is getting widely adopted,…
opentelemetry.io
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Level up your #OTel knowledge with the #OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA) exam from the Linux Foundation. Whether you're a newcomer or experienced user, preparing for this exam will strengthen your observability fundamentals and reinforce best practices. Details on our blog!
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What makes OTel Unplugged different? No fixed talks — you set the agenda.
➕ Attendee-driven breakouts
➕ Maintainer & end-user discussions
➕ End-of-day OpenTelemetry roadmap session
📍 Sparks Meeting (Brussels) | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026
🎟️ Register:
➕ Attendee-driven breakouts
➕ Maintainer & end-user discussions
➕ End-of-day OpenTelemetry roadmap session
📍 Sparks Meeting (Brussels) | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026
🎟️ Register:
OTel Unplugged EU 2026
A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
What makes OTel Unplugged different? No fixed talks — you set the agenda.
➕ Attendee-driven breakouts
➕ Maintainer & end-user discussions
➕ End-of-day OpenTelemetry roadmap session
📍 Sparks Meeting (Brussels) | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026
🎟️ Register:
➕ Attendee-driven breakouts
➕ Maintainer & end-user discussions
➕ End-of-day OpenTelemetry roadmap session
📍 Sparks Meeting (Brussels) | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026
🎟️ Register:
There is no open source without community.
Here are the winners of the 2025 #OTel Community Awards! Folks were nominated by their peers for their exceptional efforts this past year. Congrats to the winners! And thanks to our hard-working community! We couldn't do it without you!
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Here are the winners of the 2025 #OTel Community Awards! Folks were nominated by their peers for their exceptional efforts this past year. Congrats to the winners! And thanks to our hard-working community! We couldn't do it without you!
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Announcing 2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards Winners
We are excited to announce the winners of the second OpenTelemetry Community Awards! These awards recognize individuals who have made a notable impact to the OpenTelemetry project over the past year,…
opentelemetry.io
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
There is no open source without community.
Here are the winners of the 2025 #OTel Community Awards! Folks were nominated by their peers for their exceptional efforts this past year. Congrats to the winners! And thanks to our hard-working community! We couldn't do it without you!
buff.ly/kQsoEfz
Here are the winners of the 2025 #OTel Community Awards! Folks were nominated by their peers for their exceptional efforts this past year. Congrats to the winners! And thanks to our hard-working community! We couldn't do it without you!
buff.ly/kQsoEfz
Are you headed to FOSDEM? Join us in Brussels on Monday, Feb 2, 2026, for OTel Unplugged EU 2026 — an unconference by and for the OpenTelemetry community.
Open breakout sessions, roadmap discussions, & a community that loves building together. Register here: buff.ly/0eT2c6w
#OpenTelemetry #FOSDEM
Open breakout sessions, roadmap discussions, & a community that loves building together. Register here: buff.ly/0eT2c6w
#OpenTelemetry #FOSDEM
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Are you headed to FOSDEM? Join us in Brussels on Monday, Feb 2, 2026, for OTel Unplugged EU 2026 — an unconference by and for the OpenTelemetry community.
Open breakout sessions, roadmap discussions, & a community that loves building together. Register here: buff.ly/0eT2c6w
#OpenTelemetry #FOSDEM
Open breakout sessions, roadmap discussions, & a community that loves building together. Register here: buff.ly/0eT2c6w
#OpenTelemetry #FOSDEM
📢 日本のOpenTelemetry（OTel）エンドユーザーの皆様へ！
OTel End User SIGとOTel日本語ローカライズチームが、OTel活用事例を紹介するオンラインイベントを開催します。
💬 あなたの経験を共有しましょう
✨ 発見した素晴らしい知見を披露しましょう
特集インタビューにご協力いただける方は、返信をお願いします。ぜひあなたのストーリーを共有させてください！🫶
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #OTelCommunity
OTel End User SIGとOTel日本語ローカライズチームが、OTel活用事例を紹介するオンラインイベントを開催します。
💬 あなたの経験を共有しましょう
✨ 発見した素晴らしい知見を披露しましょう
特集インタビューにご協力いただける方は、返信をお願いします。ぜひあなたのストーリーを共有させてください！🫶
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #OTelCommunity
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
📢 日本のOpenTelemetry（OTel）エンドユーザーの皆様へ！
OTel End User SIGとOTel日本語ローカライズチームが、OTel活用事例を紹介するオンラインイベントを開催します。
💬 あなたの経験を共有しましょう
✨ 発見した素晴らしい知見を披露しましょう
特集インタビューにご協力いただける方は、返信をお願いします。ぜひあなたのストーリーを共有させてください！🫶
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #OTelCommunity
OTel End User SIGとOTel日本語ローカライズチームが、OTel活用事例を紹介するオンラインイベントを開催します。
💬 あなたの経験を共有しましょう
✨ 発見した素晴らしい知見を披露しましょう
特集インタビューにご協力いただける方は、返信をお願いします。ぜひあなたのストーリーを共有させてください！🫶
#OpenTelemetry #Observability #OTelCommunity
The Governance Committee has published a new statement on the blog, outlining proposals around improving the user experience, stability, and release practices across the project.
We’d appreciate feedback from users and maintainers.
We’d appreciate feedback from users and maintainers.
Evolving OpenTelemetry's Stabilization and Release Practices
Summary OpenTelemetry is, by any metric, one of the largest and most exciting projects in the cloud native space. Over the past five years, this community has come together to build one of the most…
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Governance Committee has published a new statement on the blog, outlining proposals around improving the user experience, stability, and release practices across the project.
We’d appreciate feedback from users and maintainers.
We’d appreciate feedback from users and maintainers.
Have you ever wished you could extract individual events from a concatenated mess of a log record? Now you can! Add the unroll processor to your #OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines to expand bundled log records in a clean, deterministic way. Read more in our latest post!
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Contributing the Unroll Processor to the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib
The idea for unrolling bundled logs inside the OpenTelemetry Collector didn’t start with a processor. By “unrolling,” I mean taking a single log record that contains multiple logical events—for…
opentelemetry.io
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Have you ever wished you could extract individual events from a concatenated mess of a log record? Now you can! Add the unroll processor to your #OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines to expand bundled log records in a clean, deterministic way. Read more in our latest post!
buff.ly/wZCiiG2
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Everyone knows #OpenTelemetry's attributes can be easily filtered and aggregated by any backend. But what happens when the data itself is complex? We are excited to announce support for complex data across all #OTel signals starting with OTLP 1.9.0. Learn more in our latest post.
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Announcing Support for Complex Attribute Types in OTel
It’s common to use simple key-value properties as attributes in telemetry. Most telemetry backends are optimized for this pattern, making it efficient to store, index, and query data. OpenTelemetry…
opentelemetry.io
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Everyone knows #OpenTelemetry's attributes can be easily filtered and aggregated by any backend. But what happens when the data itself is complex? We are excited to announce support for complex data across all #OTel signals starting with OTLP 1.9.0. Learn more in our latest post.
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Last call: OpenTelemetry Community Awards nominations close soon! If someone helped you ship, scale, or learn this year, nominate them now:
2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards
OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code,…
buff.ly
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Last call: OpenTelemetry Community Awards nominations close soon! If someone helped you ship, scale, or learn this year, nominate them now:
The #OTel project is thrilled to share the first release of #OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI)!
Use OBI to instrument all applications, all programming languages, all libraries with a single command. 👏 Zero effort. 👏 Maximum gain.
Read our latest blog post to learn more!
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Use OBI to instrument all applications, all programming languages, all libraries with a single command. 👏 Zero effort. 👏 Maximum gain.
Read our latest blog post to learn more!
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OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation Marks the First Release
Following a significant collaboration between Grafana Labs, Splunk, Coralogix, Odigos and many other community members, we are thrilled to announce the first alpha release of OpenTelemetry eBPF…
opentelemetry.io
November 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The #OTel project is thrilled to share the first release of #OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI)!
Use OBI to instrument all applications, all programming languages, all libraries with a single command. 👏 Zero effort. 👏 Maximum gain.
Read our latest blog post to learn more!
buff.ly/jgkBx4e
Use OBI to instrument all applications, all programming languages, all libraries with a single command. 👏 Zero effort. 👏 Maximum gain.
Read our latest blog post to learn more!
buff.ly/jgkBx4e
The 2025 Governance Committee election results are now available.
Thank you to all the candidates as well as all of the voters, and congratulations to the elected GC members!
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Thank you to all the candidates as well as all of the voters, and congratulations to the elected GC members!
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Announcing the 2025 Governance Committee Election Results
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election! The OpenTelemetry project continues to bring together an exceptionally vibrant community, who are…
opentelemetry.io
October 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The 2025 Governance Committee election results are now available.
Thank you to all the candidates as well as all of the voters, and congratulations to the elected GC members!
buff.ly/piKPnJY
Thank you to all the candidates as well as all of the voters, and congratulations to the elected GC members!
buff.ly/piKPnJY
One week left to recognize outstanding OpenTelemetry community members. Nominations close Nov 6. Take a minute to submit up to five names:
2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards
OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code,…
buff.ly
October 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
One week left to recognize outstanding OpenTelemetry community members. Nominations close Nov 6. Take a minute to submit up to five names:
Last call to vote!
The 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election closes today at noon (UTC).
Make sure your voice is counted:
✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
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The 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election closes today at noon (UTC).
Make sure your voice is counted:
✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
🗳️ buff.ly/tQUXYHt
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Last call to vote!
The 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election closes today at noon (UTC).
Make sure your voice is counted:
✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
🗳️ buff.ly/tQUXYHt
The 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election closes today at noon (UTC).
Make sure your voice is counted:
✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
🗳️ buff.ly/tQUXYHt
🗳️ The 2025 OpenTelemetry GC 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/6xn7MYb
🗳️ Vote here: buff.ly/tQUXYHt
Voting closes Oct 30, noon (UTC) — don’t miss your chance to have a say!
If you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time to help shape the future of the project.
✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
🗳️ Vote here: buff.ly/tQUXYHt
Voting closes Oct 30, noon (UTC) — don’t miss your chance to have a say!
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🗳️ The 2025 OpenTelemetry GC 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/6xn7MYb
🗳️ Vote here: buff.ly/tQUXYHt
Voting closes Oct 30, noon (UTC) — don’t miss your chance to have a say!
If you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time to help shape the future of the project.
✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
🗳️ Vote here: buff.ly/tQUXYHt
Voting closes Oct 30, noon (UTC) — don’t miss your chance to have a say!
🗳️ It’s time! Voting is open for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election.
Check your status here, if you’re an eligible voter: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
Then cast your vote: buff.ly/tQUXYHt
Check your status here, if you’re an eligible voter: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
Then cast your vote: buff.ly/tQUXYHt
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🗳️ It’s time! Voting is open for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election.
Check your status here, if you’re an eligible voter: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
Then cast your vote: buff.ly/tQUXYHt
Check your status here, if you’re an eligible voter: buff.ly/6xn7MYb
Then cast your vote: buff.ly/tQUXYHt
Missed our first "What's New in OTel"? No problem! Catch it on-demand on our YouTube channel, and stay tuned for more streams in the series coming your way!
What's New in Otel?
Been too busy to keep up with what's going on in the OTel space? No worries--we've been there, too! That's why we've put together this new series for you (an...
buff.ly
October 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Missed our first "What's New in OTel"? No problem! Catch it on-demand on our YouTube channel, and stay tuned for more streams in the series coming your way!
Know someone who made OpenTelemetry better this year? Nominate them for the 2025 Community Awards:
2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards
OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code,…
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Know someone who made OpenTelemetry better this year? Nominate them for the 2025 Community Awards:
🎤 OpenTelemetry Unplugged
We’re bringing the community together the day after FOSDEM for an unconference: attendee-driven breakouts and a project roadmap session run with the OTel Governance Committee.
📍 Sparks Meeting, Brussels | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 | ⏰ 09:00–19:00
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/LYKI9dl
We’re bringing the community together the day after FOSDEM for an unconference: attendee-driven breakouts and a project roadmap session run with the OTel Governance Committee.
📍 Sparks Meeting, Brussels | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 | ⏰ 09:00–19:00
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/LYKI9dl
OTel Unplugged EU 2026
A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future.
events.humanitix.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🎤 OpenTelemetry Unplugged
We’re bringing the community together the day after FOSDEM for an unconference: attendee-driven breakouts and a project roadmap session run with the OTel Governance Committee.
📍 Sparks Meeting, Brussels | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 | ⏰ 09:00–19:00
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/LYKI9dl
We’re bringing the community together the day after FOSDEM for an unconference: attendee-driven breakouts and a project roadmap session run with the OTel Governance Committee.
📍 Sparks Meeting, Brussels | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 | ⏰ 09:00–19:00
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/LYKI9dl
Read about the he declarative configuration journey and learn why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/de...
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The Declarative configuration journey: Why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
One of the most persistent and popular feature requests for Java OpenTelemetry over the past couple of years has been the ability to efficiently drop spans for health check endpoints – or any other…
opentelemetry.io
October 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Read about the he declarative configuration journey and learn why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/de...
opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/de...
⏳ Our next OTel Live session is happening tomorrow. Don’t miss the chance to catch up on what’s new in the OpenTelemetry project.
Hear directly from maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez as they share updates from across the ecosystem.
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC
🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO
Hear directly from maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez as they share updates from across the ecosystem.
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC
🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
⏳ Our next OTel Live session is happening tomorrow. Don’t miss the chance to catch up on what’s new in the OpenTelemetry project.
Hear directly from maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez as they share updates from across the ecosystem.
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC
🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO
Hear directly from maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez as they share updates from across the ecosystem.
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC
🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO
Last call: Governance Committee nominations close soon! Now’s your chance to step up, or nominate someone you respect. Nominations are due 17 October 2025, 23:59 UTC. Submit via PR to the candidate list.
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Announcing the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by 17 October 2025 23:59 UTC. The list of eligible candidates will be…
opentelemetry.io
October 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Last call: Governance Committee nominations close soon! Now’s your chance to step up, or nominate someone you respect. Nominations are due 17 October 2025, 23:59 UTC. Submit via PR to the candidate list.
🔗 buff.ly/aQgDvAp
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Help spotlight the people moving #OpenTelemetry forward. Nominations for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards are open until November 6th. Take a minute to nominate: opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/co...
2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards
OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code,…
opentelemetry.io
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Help spotlight the people moving #OpenTelemetry forward. Nominations for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards are open until November 6th. Take a minute to nominate: opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/co...
OpenTelemetry is adopting the W3C TraceContext Level 2 draft recommendation as the foundation for consistent sampling! Read more:
OpenTelemetry Sampling update
Introduction OpenTelemetry published version 1.0 of its Tracing specification over four years ago, and the same year W3C TraceContext Level 1 was published with W3C Recommendation status. We as a…
buff.ly
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
OpenTelemetry is adopting the W3C TraceContext Level 2 draft recommendation as the foundation for consistent sampling! Read more:
If you’ve missed some of the updates on the OpenTelemetry project, here’s your chance to catch up.
Join us at our next OTel Live session, where maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez will share the latest developments in OTel.
🗓️ October 21
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC
🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO
Join us at our next OTel Live session, where maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez will share the latest developments in OTel.
🗓️ October 21
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC
🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO
October 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If you’ve missed some of the updates on the OpenTelemetry project, here’s your chance to catch up.
Join us at our next OTel Live session, where maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez will share the latest developments in OTel.
🗓️ October 21
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC
🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO
Join us at our next OTel Live session, where maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez will share the latest developments in OTel.
🗓️ October 21
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC
🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO
The #OpenTelemetry on Mainframes SIG was formed to enable the most important #OTel components for the mainframe. To prioritize their work, the SIG conducted a survey earlier this year. Check out the link for their key findings and to learn how to get involved!
opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ma...
opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ma...
Exploring OpenTelemetry Priorities for Mainframes - Insights from Survey Responses
Which OpenTelemetry features are considered most important by users for enhancing the observability of mainframes? Earlier this year, the OpenTelemetry on Mainframes Special Interest Group (SIG) and…
opentelemetry.io
October 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The #OpenTelemetry on Mainframes SIG was formed to enable the most important #OTel components for the mainframe. To prioritize their work, the SIG conducted a survey earlier this year. Check out the link for their key findings and to learn how to get involved!
opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ma...
opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ma...