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Building upon our previous analyses, we continue to monitor trends and technologies that resonate with developers and end users. Take a look at our past timeframes from our blogs.  Here are the main takeaways I see...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...