Prometheus and OpenTelemetry - Better Together
Wednesday, September 04, 2024 in 2024
Tools such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry help us monitor the health, performance, and availability of our complex distributed systems. Both are open source projects under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) umbrella – but what role does …
Announcing the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
Tuesday, September 03, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2024 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by 11 October 2024 23:59 UTC. The list of eligible candidates will be shared on 14 October 2024. Voting will take place …
Planned Migration for go.opentelemetry.io
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 in 2024
With contributions from Tyler Yahn and Austin Parker. TL;DR The app that serves requests to go.opentelemetry.io will be migrating to a new host on September 5, 2024 at approximately 11:00AM Eastern Time. There are no changes required from you. We are …
OpenTelemetry website goes multilingual!
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 in 2024
We are happy to announce that the OpenTelemetry website is available in multiple languages! Localization teams have already started to translate website pages into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. The OpenTelemetry project has grown to …
Behind the scenes of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee
Thursday, August 15, 2024 in 2024
As a principal engineer at Grafana Labs, my focus is on OpenTelemetry: writing code or maintaining OTel Collector components and tooling, helping out with our recent security audit, and building bridges between people with similar ideas — all with …
Insights from the Prometheus Compatibility Survey
Thursday, July 25, 2024 in 2024
Prometheus and OpenTelemetry are two of the most active and popular projects in the CNCF observability landscape. The two communities have been working together since the early days of OpenTelemetry to improve the compatibility between the two …
OpenTelemetry Security Audit Published
Monday, July 22, 2024 in 2024
Thousands of organizations and millions of users around the world rely on OpenTelemetry as part of their observability toolkit. To this end, it is our responsibility as a project to ensure our code is safe, secure, and performant. In conjunction with …
OpenTelemetry Talks at KubeCon China 2024
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 in 2024
Join members of the OpenTelemetry community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev in Hong Kong from August 21 to 23, 2024. This post covers OpenTelemetry related events at the venue and will be updated as we receive notice of new …
Hardening the Collector Episode 1: A new default bind address
Tuesday, July 02, 2024 in 2024
The OpenTelemetry Collector recently went through a security audit sponsored by the CNCF, facilitated by OSTIF, and performed by 7ASecurity. As part of this process we published a security advisory related to a DoS vulnerability that was fully …
Insights from the OpenTelemetry Getting Started Survey
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 in 2024
Getting started with new technologies can be hard, which is why we try to meet our end-users where they are. As a part of that goal, the OpenTelemetry End-User SIG recently surveyed the community to find out how we can best help our users get started …