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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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The rise of open standards in observability: highlights from KubeCon
Member Post The rise of open standards in observability: highlights from KubeCon
Guest post originally published on Logz.io’s blog by Dotan Horovits, Logz.io TL;DR Key updates: Query Language Standard for Observability: new CNCF working group led by eBay, Netflix Standardizing the Prometheus Remote-Write Protocol Sunsetting OpenCensus in Favor...
July 10, 2023 | Dotan Horovits

OpenTelemetry demystified: a deep dive into distributed tracing
Member Post OpenTelemetry demystified: a deep dive into distributed tracing
Guest post by Jay Swamidass, Logiq.ai If you’re a DevOps engineer, IT personnel, or developer, you’re likely very familiar with telemetry data. After all, it’s what provides you with valuable insights into an application’s health and...
May 3, 2023

Distributed tracing in Kubernetes apps: What you need to know
Member Post Distributed tracing in Kubernetes apps: What you need to know
Guest post originally published on Grafana Labs’ blog Kubernetes makes it easier for businesses to automate software deployment and manage applications in the cloud at scale. However, if you’ve ever deployed a cloud native app, you...
March 29, 2023

Migrating from OpenTracing to OpenTelemetry
Member Post Migrating from OpenTracing to OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on Tyk’s blog by Sonja Chevre An API gateway can simplify operational concerns like observability by providing a single access point for requests to all web services in a system. As all...
February 7, 2023 | Sonja Chevre

CNCF Archives the OpenTracing Project
Staff Post CNCF Archives the OpenTracing Project
CNCF announced today that the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has approved the archiving of the OpenTracing project. Archived projects are fairly rare but a sign of a healthy open source community. OpenTracing is only the second...
January 31, 2022

Distributed tracing in Grafana with Tempo and Jaeger
Member Post Distributed tracing in Grafana with Tempo and Jaeger
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Ruturaj Kadikar, Software Engineer at InfraCloud  Why do I need tracing if I have a good logging and monitoring framework?  Application logs are beneficial for displaying important events...
October 5, 2021 | Ruturaj Kadikar

OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
Staff Post OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as a CNCF incubating project. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud native software. It is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that can...
August 26, 2021

CNCF Cloud Native Survey China 2020
Staff Post CNCF Cloud Native Survey China 2020
2020年CNCF中国云原生调查 At CNCF, we regularly survey our community to better understand the adoption of open source and cloud native technologies. For the fourth time, we conducted the Cloud Native Survey China in Mandarin to gain deeper...
April 28, 2021

TOC welcomes Cortex as an incubating project
Project Post TOC welcomes Cortex as an incubating project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Cortex as an incubation-level hosted project. Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus. “Cortex is an excellent addition to the CNCF...
August 20, 2020

OpenTelemetry: Future-Proofing Your Instrumentation
Member Post OpenTelemetry: Future-Proofing Your Instrumentation
Guest post originally published on the New Relic blog by John Watson, lead engineer, and Lavanya Chockalingam, senior product marketing manager at New Relic As a developer, you care about the performance of your applications, and you know...
August 6, 2020

Introduction to OpenTelemetry (Overview Part 1/2)
Member Post Introduction to OpenTelemetry (Overview Part 1/2)
Guest post originally published on the Epsagon blog by Ran Ribenzaft, co-founder and CEO at Epsagon OpenTelemetry is an exciting new observability ecosystem with a number of leading monitoring companies behind it. It is a provider-agnostic observability solution...
May 11, 2020

TOC approves CNCF SIGs and creates security and storage SIGs
TOC approves CNCF SIGs and creates security and storage SIGs
Earlier this year, the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to create CNCF Special Interest Groups (SIGs). CNCF SIGs are currently being bootstrapped in various focus areas and primarily led by recognized experts and supported by contributors. They...
June 24, 2019

A brief history of OpenTelemetry (So Far)
A brief history of OpenTelemetry (So Far)
by Ben Sigelman, co-creator of OpenTracing and member of the OpenTelemetry governing committee, and Morgan McLean, Product Manager for OpenCensus at Google since the project’s inception After many months of planning, discussion, prototyping, more discussion, and...
May 21, 2019

CNCF Survey: Cloud usage in Asia has grown 135% since March 2018
CNCF Survey: Cloud usage in Asia has grown 135% since March 2018
The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the second time CNCF has conducted its cloud native survey in Mandarin to better gauge...
November 13, 2018 | Kaitlyn Barnard

The beginner’s guide to the CNCF landscape
The beginner’s guide to the CNCF landscape
This blog was originally posted on the CloudOps blog, by Ayrat Khayretdinov The cloud native landscape can be complicated and confusing. Its myriad of open source projects are supported by the constant contributions of a vibrant...
November 5, 2018

CNCF Survey: Use of cloud native technologies in production has grown over 200%
CNCF Survey: Use of cloud native technologies in production has grown over 200%
The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the sixth time CNCF has taken the temperature of the container management marketplace. Key takeaways...
August 29, 2018 | Kaitlyn Barnard

Trace your microservices application with Zipkin and OpenTracing
Trace your microservices application with Zipkin and OpenTracing
By Gianluca Arbezzano, Site Reliability Engineer at InfluxDB, CNCF Ambassador Walter Dal Mut is a certified Amazon Web Service consultant. He works at Corley SRL, an Italian company that helps other small and big companies move...
March 19, 2018 | Kaitlyn Barnard

January 2018: OpenTracing project newsletter
January 2018: OpenTracing project newsletter
Members of OpenTracing made a New Year’s Resolution in 2018 to communicate the progress made by the project regularly and consistently. To that end, this is the first of many posts to come. Read on to...
February 16, 2018 | Kristen Evans

Announcing Jaeger 1.0 release!
Announcing Jaeger 1.0 release!
In February we introduced Jaeger in a blog post Evolving Distributed Tracing at Uber Engineering. Two months later Jaeger backend has been released as an open source project. So many things have happened since then. We...
December 6, 2017

CNCF hosts Envoy
CNCF hosts Envoy
Announced today onstage by Chris Lambert, Lyft CTO, at Open Source Summit North America, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted Envoy in as our 11th hosted project alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, linkerd,...
September 13, 2017 | Natasha Woods