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DevOps.com: “CNCF Advances OpenTelemetry Initiative”

Posted on September 1, 2021

The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as an incubating project as part of an ongoing effort to simplify instrumentation of software using open source agent software.


OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project

Posted on August 26, 2021

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 be used…


Understand OpenTelemetry part 2: core components

Posted on August 26, 2021 | By Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam

Guest post originally published on New Relic’s blog by Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam This blog post is part of the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 gave an overview to OpenTelemetry and discussed why it is the future of instrumentation. Now in Part 2,…


Mentorship Spotlight: Second time lucky with OpenTelemetry

Posted on August 13, 2021 | By Ndubuisi Onyemenam

Guest post originally published on Medium by Ndubuisi Onyemenam Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity Seneca The first time I applied to OpenTelemetry for the Linux Foundation Internship was for the Q3-Q4 round of 2020. I received a rejection email,…


Trace-based testing with OpenTelemetry: Meet open source Malabi

Posted on August 11, 2021 | By Yuri Shkuro + Michael Haberman

Community guest post by Yuri Shkuro, creator and maintainer of Jaeger, and Michael Haberman, Co-Founder & CTO of Aspecto If you deal with distributed applications at scale, you probably use tracing. And if you use tracing data, you…


What is OpenTelemetry and why is it the future of instrumentation?

Posted on August 6, 2021 | By Lavanya Chockalingam

Guest post originally published on New Relic’s blog by Lavanya Chockalingam of New Relic This blog is the first part in the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 begins with an overview of what OpenTelemetry is and why this open standard is the future of…


From distributed tracing to APM: Taking OpenTelemetry and Jaeger up a level

Posted on April 29, 2021

Guest post originally on Medium by Dotan Horovits, a CNCF speaker, a co-organizer of the local CNCF chapter in Tel Aviv Monitoring Microservices Performance with Aggregated Trace Metrics It’s no secret that Jaeger and OpenTelemetry are known and…


InfoQ: “OpenTelemetry Specification Reaches 1.0 with Stability Guarantees and New Release Candidates”

Posted on March 7, 2021

The OpenTelemetry specification has been promoted to v1.0.0. This milestone includes improved stability and backwards compatibility guarantees as well as API and SDK release candidates available for a number of languages. With this release both the tracing API…


SiliconANGLE: “OpenTelemetry attracts major enterprise interest in drive to set common observability standard”

Posted on March 1, 2021

Without traffic signals and signage, life would not be pleasant on local streets; motorists would drive in opposing lanes and chaos would ensue. A stop sign is a reliable standard; it means the same thing no matter where…


The Register: “Ever wondered what exactly is going on in those containers? OpenTelemetry edges toward GA, emits tracing specification release candidate”

Posted on October 22, 2020

The OpenTelemetry community has taken another step toward General Availability with the first release candidate of the tracing specification. It’s quite the milestone for the project, which modestly describes itself as the second most active (behind Kubernetes, natch)…