Our latest blog post explains how the End User SIG created a clear, low-effort, data-driven way for the #OpenTelemetry community to signal the work that matters most.
So the next time you’re browsing #OTel issues, don’t just read and leave. When you find an issue that describes a problem you’re also facing or a feature you’d like to see implemented, give the issue description a 
reaction. That’s it! Like and subscribe. That’s the signal.
What do you call an OTel collector written in #Rust? Rotel!
And it shows some impressive performance gains over the Go-written collector.
Check out the latest on this fascinating #opensource project fresh from Open #Observability Summit + #OpenTelemetry Day:
https://medium.com/p/d42c8826d6a5#079f
@opentelemetry.fosstodon.org @rustfoundation
This week, I want to highlight several gotchas found across stacks in the zero-code instrumentation. https://hackernoon.com/what-to-know-about-opentelemetry-configuration-gotchas #opentelemetry
Diving deep into distributed microservices with OpenSearch and OpenTelemetry
Discover how enhanced service maps, span grouping, and latency charts in the latest Trace Analytics plugin help you trace issues faster. See how OpenTelemetry + Data Prepper can be used for end-to-end visibility.
Read the blog: https://opensearch.org/blog/diving-deep-into-distributed-microservices-with-opensearch-and-opentelemetry/
Your #Java logs won’t reveal why a microservice chokes under load in #Kubernetes. @vipinaiswarya traces the leap from System.out.println to #OpenTelemetry—linking logs, metrics & traces to spot failures before users do.
Read: https://javapro.io/2025/08/13/observability-landscape-in-java/
@OpenTelemetry #CloudNative
When you roll out @opentelemetry Collector in a large scale #observability setup, it's a matter of time until you hit a few bumps.
One of these bumps is the #OpenTelemetry Collector's default listener for internal metrics. When a server already uses this listener port, there's obviously a port conflict and the collector won't start.
More technical details and a #Systemd service workaround in my latest #blog post.
The North remembers... Game of Traces is here! 
Try out this grand strategy game to learn the fundamentals of #OpenTelemetry tracing — and, of course, heroically defend a few kingdoms along the way: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/08/11/learn-opentelemetry-tracing-through-a-grand-strategy-game-introducing-game-of-traces/?camp=blog&mdm=social
Just arrived in the US for #KCDC. Don't miss my talk on #DistributedTracing with #OpenTelemetry on Wednesday morning in the #DevOps Day room!
We will see how a simple Hello World demo works 
Same powers. New name 
In case you missed it, #Grafana Labs donated Grafana Beyla to the CNCF #OpenTelemetry Project, under the project name OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) earlier this year.
Here's why: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-beyla-donation/?camp=blog&mdm=social
Our latest blog post walks you through how to use basic grammar to name your custom spans. Follow this best practice to create clear, consistent names with low cardinality. Your future self thanks you!
Haven’t shared your experience with the OpenTelemetry Collector yet? There’s still time!
Our follow-up survey is still open, and we’re inviting all Collector users to help us understand:
- What’s improved
- What still needs work
- How we can better support your use cases
Even if you responded to the first survey, we’d love your updated perspective.
Take 5 minutes and tell us what’s up → https://buff.ly/Ghoh5H9
Last week, I described several approaches to #OpenTelemetry on the JVM, their requirements, and their different results. This week, I want to highlight several #gotchas found across stacks in the zero-code instrumentation.
Let's compare the different zero-code OpenTelemetry approaches on the JVM, covering the most widespread. https://hackernoon.com/a-guide-to-opentelemetry-tracing-for-the-jvm #opentelemetry
Good grief #OpenTelemetry dependencies in #golang are a nightmare. And they just break each other on the regular :(
New blog post! #OpenTelemetry in Practice: Alibaba's OpenTelemetry Journey
There's a team that decided to rewrite #OpenTelemetry Collector in Rust.
The result is the #Rotel project.
This project is one of the highlights from the 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 + 𝗢𝗧𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘆 by the #CNCF.
Check out the recap of the OpenObservability Talk podcast for this and more highlights:
medium.com/p/d42c8826d6a5
How do you trace a user’s journey through a maze of microservices?
ヽ(。_°)ノ
In this 10-min 
Thunder episode, Jaeger maintainer Jonah Kowall covers tracing, scaling, sampling, and how OpenTelemetry fits in.
Watch → https://youtu.be/DGELUM-tSq4
Join Wayne Bell @Skyscanner & Dan Gomez Blanco @new Relic at #InfoQDevSummit Munich (Oct 15-16). They'll share how they built a future-proof observability platform using OpenTelemetry to empower engineers.
https://bit.ly/45tvq9U
#Observability #OpenTelemetry #PlatformEngineering
You may know I’m a big fan of #OpenTelemetry. I recently finished developing a master class for the YOW! conference at the end of the year. During development, I noticed massive differences in configuration and results across programming languages. Even worse, differences exist across frameworks inside the same programming language.
In this post, I want to compare the different zero-code OpenTelemetry approaches on the #JVM, covering the most widespread.
