Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Jaeger as the 12th hosted project alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI and Envoy. “Microservices are a key component…
Observability Day: Where the community comes together at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
Observability Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America on November 9, 2026, in Salt Lake City, Utah, bringing together maintainers, operators, and end users from across the CNCF observability community. Observability has reached an important…
Distributed tracing for CI pipelines without touching a single workflow file
You’ve probably felt this one: GitHub Actions usage creeps up across your org, and your actual visibility into it doesn’t keep pace. Which workflows are slow? Which are flaky? How long are jobs sitting queued for…
A practical guide to solving when zero+zero=two in mesh observability
A Service Mesh like Istio, together with Kiali gives you a lot on day one. You install the mesh, point Prometheus at it, and suddenly you have request rate, latency, error rate, and a fairly good…
CNCF Announces Schedule for Debut Observability Summit Europe
Summit gathers practitioners, contributors and engineers to advance open observability standards and practices Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the…
Network boundary for AI agents using NGINX and OpenTelemetry
I recently had an interesting conversation at a KCD about OpenClaw with one of the attendees, and they remarked that they wouldn’t put an agent in their network, because “we don’t know what that thing really…
OTel and mesh-derived metrics: A 2026 reference
If you already run an OpenTelemetry pipeline, you have good visibility into what your applications are doing. This blog post is about what you don’t see yet: the east-west traffic between your services, measured at the…
Improving Arm64 support in CNCF projects with OCI credits
In recent years, Arm64 has been taking the cloud service provider world by storm. Recent reports indicate that, as of the end of 2025, over 50% of new instances on AWS and over 33% on Azure…
Designing end-to-end ingress request tracing for multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Modern SaaS platforms built on cloud‑native architectures frequently consist of dozens of independently deployed microservices. A single customer request entering the platform at the ingress layer may traverse authentication services, orchestration engines, data services, and downstream…
The milestone for OpenTelemetry reflects widespread production adoption and a stable, vendor-neutral observability standard Key Highlights: MINNEAPOLIS – OBSERVABILITY SUMMIT – May 21, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for…