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A day in the life of an OpenTelemetry maintainer
Tuesday, October 07, 2025 in 2025
When people think about open source, they often picture lines of code, clever algorithms, or maybe a GitHub repository full of issues and pull requests. What can be harder to see is the human side. The people who quietly keep things moving, who make …
2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards
Monday, October 06, 2025 in 2025
OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code, documentation, project management, outreach, …
Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2025
Friday, October 03, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon NA in Atlanta from November 10 - 13, 2025. Register today to join us! Read on to learn about all the events related to …
OpenTelemetry Android: Road to Stable
Thursday, October 02, 2025 in 2025
TL;DR – We want your feedback about the OpenTelemetry Android agent API before it stabilizes. Great news! The OpenTelemetry Android SIG is actively working on stabilizing the main initialization and configuration APIs in order to prepare for a 1.0.0 …
Announcing OpenTelemetry Technical Committee Election Results
Wednesday, October 01, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry Technical Committee is delighted to announce two new elected members! Please join us in congratulating David Ashpole and Josh MacDonald! Both David and Josh are long-time OpenTelemetry contributors and specification sponsors. David …
Call for Contributors: OpenTelemetry for Kotlin
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 in 2025
Why launch OpenTelemetry for Kotlin? Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) allows running Kotlin code on many different platforms, such as browser, server, and desktop environments. Traditionally Kotlin has been most popular on Android and the JVM, but with the …
Announcing the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election
Monday, September 29, 2025 in 2025
The OpenTelemetry project is excited to announce the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC) election. Nominations are due by 17 October 2025 23:59 UTC. The list of eligible candidates will be shared on 20 October 2025. Voting will take place …
Retrospective of September 25th go.opentelemetry.io incident
Friday, September 26, 2025 in 2025
On September 25th, at 10:35 UTC, we were notified that the go.opentelemetry.io’s SSL certificate had expired. This endpoint is the canonical URL for most Go modules within the OpenTelemetry organization. As a result, downloading any modules from that …
How to Contribute to OpenTelemetry
Monday, September 15, 2025 in 2025
You might have heard about OpenTelemetry, found it interesting and want to get involved, but the path to contribution isn’t immediately clear. You might start messaging people asking to get assigned to issues, or just give a shout out saying …
How to Name Your Metrics
Thursday, September 11, 2025 in 2025
Metrics are the quantitative backbone of observability—the numbers that tell us how our systems are performing. This is the third post in our OpenTelemetry naming series, where we’ve already explored how to name spans and how to enrich them …