2026
Inside the LLM Call: GenAI Observability with OpenTelemetry
Thursday, May 14, 2026 in 2026
Your AI agent just took 45 seconds to answer a simple question. Was it the model? A slow tool call? A retry loop? Every time an application calls an LLM, a chain of model calls, tool invocations, and token exchanges happens behind the scenes — and …
Introducing OTel Blueprints and Reference Implementations
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 in 2026
It’s not uncommon for end users adopting OpenTelemetry to, at some point in their journey, ask themselves: “Why is this stuff so complex?”. Full adoption normally requires understanding the different ways of configuring SDKs, …
Introducing the Ecosystem Explorer Project
Thursday, April 30, 2026 in 2026
OpenTelemetry is vast. The Java agent alone includes over 240 different auto-instrumentations. The Collector has hundreds of components. Python, JavaScript, Go, and .NET each have their own ecosystems of instrumentation libraries, each with its own …
OpenTelemetry Japanese Community Survey
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 in 2026
This report presents findings from the OpenTelemetry Japanese Community Survey, conducted to understand the current landscape of OTel awareness, adoption, and community engagement among developers and engineers in Japan. The survey targeted …
Deprecating OpenTracing compatibility requirements
Thursday, April 23, 2026 in 2026
On March 19, 2026, the OpenTelemetry Specification project merged PR #4938, deprecating OpenTracing compatibility requirements in the specification. This change updates the specification to match where the ecosystem already is: OpenTracing has been …
How Skyscanner scales OpenTelemetry: managing collectors across 24 production clusters
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 in 2026
The Developer Experience SIG is publishing a series of blog posts featuring real-world OpenTelemetry deployments from companies across different industries and scales. This post features Skyscanner, a global travel search platform based in Edinburgh, …
OpenTelemetry Accepted Elastic's PHP Distro Donation
Thursday, April 16, 2026 in 2026
The OpenTelemetry community accepted the donation of the OpenTelemetry PHP Distro project. This post summarizes what the donation enables, how it relates to existing PHP instrumentation paths, and where contributors can help next. Why this donation …
OBI Gives Incident Response the Request Context It Needs
Friday, April 10, 2026 in 2026
When incidents are active, traces usually tell you that something is wrong. The harder problem is figuring out who is affected and why, quickly. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) v0.7.0 adds HTTP header enrichment so spans can carry request …
Inside Adobe's OpenTelemetry pipeline: simplicity at scale
Wednesday, April 08, 2026 in 2026
As part of an ongoing series, the Developer Experience SIG interviews organizations about their real-world OpenTelemetry Collector deployments to share practical lessons with the broader community. This post features Adobe, a global software company …
OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha
Thursday, March 26, 2026 in 2026
Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that …