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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
Staff Post 2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
By Chris Aniszczyk  By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...
January 29, 2025
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Jana Vonšák
Kubestronaut Post Kubestronaut in Orbit: Jana Vonšák
Get to know Jana We’re thrilled to recognize Jana Vonšák from Slovakia as our first-ever female Golden Kubestronaut. A dedicated DevOps Security Engineer with a background in software development, Jana brings a rare blend of development...
April 29, 2025

Building AuthZed with the power of cloud native: A CNCF success story
Member Post Building AuthZed with the power of cloud native: A CNCF success story
At the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), we celebrate organizations that turn cloud native technologies into real-world impact. AuthZed, a CNCF Silver member, is one such story—a company built from the ground up on open source,...
April 22, 2025 | Jimmy Zelinskie, Cofounder at AuthZed

What is observability 2.0?
Member Post What is observability 2.0?
Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Sam Suthar In the race to adopt cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, microservices, and serverless computing, monitoring often becomes an afterthought. Many enterprises assume their legacy observability tools will suffice. However, as they...
January 27, 2025

OpenTelemetry for generative AI
Project Post OpenTelemetry for generative AI
Project post originally published on the OpenTelemetry blog by Drew Robbins (Microsoft), Liudmila Molkova (Microsoft) As organizations increasingly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative AI technologies, ensuring reliable performance, efficiency, and safety is essential...
January 20, 2025

Fuzzing the CNCF landscape in 2024
Community Post Fuzzing the CNCF landscape in 2024
By Chris Aniszczyk (CNCF), Adam Korczynski (Ada Logics), David Korczynski (Ada Logics) CNCF maintains a high level of security for its projects by way of a series of initiatives such as security auditing, supply-chain assessments and...
January 13, 2025 | Chris Aniszczyk + Adam Korczynski + David Korczynski

Solving Android app issues with OpenTelemetry: Beyond local profiling
Member Post Solving Android app issues with OpenTelemetry: Beyond local profiling
Member post originally published on the Embrace blog by Francisco Prieto Cardelle OpenTelemetry is a powerful observability framework that can help engineers monitor and resolve common Android performance issues. We’ll dive into a few of these...
December 30, 2024

OpenTelemetry Collector completes fuzzing audit
Project Post OpenTelemetry Collector completes fuzzing audit
Cross-posted from the OpenTelemetry blog by Adam Korczynski OpenTelemetry is happy to announce the completion of the Collector’s fuzzing audit sponsored by the CNCF and carried out by Ada Logics. The audit marks a significant step in the OpenTelemetry...
December 30, 2024

OpenTelemetry.io 2024 review
Project Post OpenTelemetry.io 2024 review
Project post originally published on the OpenTelemetry blog by Severin Neumann (Cisco), Patrice Chalin (CNCF), Tiffany Hrabusa (Grafana Labs) As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on the year and share some insights and accomplishments from SIG Communications, the team responsible for...
December 20, 2024

Why does OpenTelemetry work differently on mobile versus backend apps?
Member Post Why does OpenTelemetry work differently on mobile versus backend apps?
 Member post by Jamie Lynch, Senior Software Engineer at Embrace OpenTelemetry has historically been adopted mainly on backend systems, where it’s a great solution for gaining insight into what’s happening in production by gathering telemetry via...
November 29, 2024 | Jamie Lynch

Emerging trends in the cloud native ecosystem
Member Post Emerging trends in the cloud native ecosystem
Member post by Jatinder Singh Purba, Principal, Infosys; Krishnakumar V, Principal, Infosys; Prabhat Kumar, Senior Industry Principal, Infosys; and Shreshta Shyamsundar, Distinguished Technologist, Infosys Emerging Trends in the Cloud-native Ecosystem In the last quarter of 2024,...
November 19, 2024 | Jatinder Singh Purba, Krishnakumar V, Prabhat Kumar, and Shreshta Shyamsundar

Gain insights into cloud native applications with the OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA)
Training & Certification Post Gain insights into cloud native applications with the OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA)
Announcing a New CNCF certification for OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry (also known as OTel) is an open-source observability framework with tools, libraries, APIs, and SDKs for collecting, processing, and exporting rich telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and...
November 15, 2024

OpenTelemetry Is expanding into CI/CD observability
SIG Post OpenTelemetry Is expanding into CI/CD observability
SIG post by Dotan Horovits and Adriel Perkins, Project Leads, SIG CI/CD Observability, OpenTelemetry We’ve been talking about the need for a common “language” for reporting and observing CI/CD pipelines for years, and finally, we see...
November 4, 2024 | Dotan Horovits + Adriel Perkins

Prometheus 3.0 unveiled: highlights from PromCon Europe 2024
Ambassador Post Prometheus 3.0 unveiled: highlights from PromCon Europe 2024
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador TL;DR Key updates: PromCon Europe 2024 just wrapped up in Berlin, and this year’s edition was a big one. Not just because the Prometheus community...
October 17, 2024 | Dotan Horovits

OpenTelemetry Collector: everything a developer needs to know
Member Post OpenTelemetry Collector: everything a developer needs to know
Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Keval Bhogayata In distributed applications with complex, resource-intensive microservices—each of which generates a mountain of telemetry data—collecting and managing telemetry with your application can be cumbersome and inefficient....
October 7, 2024

How to add OTEL instrumentation to a React Native app
Member Post How to add OTEL instrumentation to a React Native app
Member post by Jonathan Munz, Senior Software Engineer at Embrace React Native allows developers to build native mobile apps using Javascript and Typescript for both iOS and Android. With a web language as its core and...
August 5, 2024 | Jonathan Munz

CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Program Term 1 2024!
Mentorship Post CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Program Term 1 2024!
Congratulations to CNCF’s 2024 Term 1 (March – May) LFX Program mentees who have finished the program successfully! Following a three-month program working with 28 different Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects, including Antrea, Istio, KubeEdge, OpenTelemetry,...
June 19, 2024

Why Embrace created span snapshots for mobile observability with OpenTelemetry
Member Post Why Embrace created span snapshots for mobile observability with OpenTelemetry
Member post by Fredric Newberg, CTO and Co-Founder of Embrace OTel spans are very powerful for gaining an understanding of the performance of mobile applications. However, given the restriction placed on spans in the OTel specification...
June 14, 2024

Kubestronaut in Orbit: Khushboo Khatter
Kubestronaut Post Kubestronaut in Orbit: Khushboo Khatter
Get to know Khushboo Khushboo Khatter is an IT professional with over 8 years of experience and 6 of those working with Kubernetes. She has a passion for cloud technologies and enjoys exploring cutting-edge CNCF tools....
June 7, 2024

An improved OpenTelemetry continuous profiling agent
Member Post An improved OpenTelemetry continuous profiling agent
Member blog post by Abhishek Singh, Christos Kalkanis, Alexander Wert, and Bahubali Shetti of Elastic In March 2023, OpenTelemetry took a big step towards this goal by merging a profiling data model OTEP and working towards...
June 7, 2024 | Abhishek Singh, Christos Kalkanis, Alexander Wert, Bahubali Shetti

Is testing in production even possible?
Community Post Is testing in production even possible?
Community post by Antonio Berben, Principal Solutions Architect at Solo.io (Linkedin | GitHub) In a Testing In Production (TIP) scenario, a critical aspect is routing traffic based on runtime contextual data. This data, often referred to...
May 28, 2024