OpenTelemetry graduates at CNCF. Chris Aniszczyk explains what it means for AI agents, GPU-native clouds, and vendor-neutral observability.

As software architectures evolve, observability tools must adapt. When the industry moved to microservices, distributed tracing became a necessity. Jaeger emerged as a core tool for engineers to understand those fragmented systems. Now, as organizations integrate…

OpenTelemetry’s rise from cloud native instrumentation project to broadly supported observability standard reached a new milestone this week as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the project’s graduation.

OpenTelemetry just hit graduated status at the CNCF, and the timing matters more than the milestone itself. After years of consolidating what used to be OpenTracing and OpenCensus, the project has quietly become the default way…

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) on Thursday announced the graduation of OpenTelemetry, the open source observability framework that has become one of the most widely adopted pieces of infrastructure in cloud-native computing.

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…

Jaeger v2 uses OpenTelemetry and MCP to trace GenAI pipelines and facilitate collaboration between engineers and AI agents for observability.

Modern software runs on open source. In fact, “free” and open source software generates more than $500 billion in annual value in the U.S. alone and an estimated $8.8 trillion in total global value. For most…