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…
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…
Jaeger v2 released: OpenTelemetry in the core!
Project post by the Jaeger maintainers Jaeger, the popular open-source distributed tracing platform, has had a successful 9 year history as being one of the first graduated projects in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). After…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Charting new territory: OpenTelemetry embraces profiling
Ambassador post originally published on Logz.io’s blog by Dotan Horovits The topic of continuous profiling has been an ongoing discussion in the observability world for some time. I said back in 2021 that profiling was set…
DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry Project Maintainers Add Code Profiling Capabilities”
This week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference, the maintainers of the open source OpenTelemetry observability agent software project being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed they have added profiling capabilities to enable DevOps…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s largest event in Europe, is also the largest KubeCon ever. The event has long been understood as a chance for organizers to connect with the community.