OpenTelemetry Project Update
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
This talk provides a comprehensive update on the OpenTelemetry project, highlighting its significant growth, ongoing developments, and strategic roadmap. Presented by key members of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC), including Alolita Sharma from Apple, Daniel Gomez Blanco from New Relic, Austin Parker from Honeycomb, Tras Stalaker from Microsoft, and Pablo Bayans from Datadog, the session offers deep insights into the project's evolution as a cornerstone of cloud-native observability. It covers community milestones, advancements in core features like profiling and structured logging, the stabilization of semantic conventions, and critical updates to the OpenTelemetry Collector.
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This talk delivers a critical, high-signal update on OpenTelemetry, a foundational project for cloud-native observability. Presented by the project's Governance Committee, it details exponential community growth, imminent CNCF graduation, and significant technical advancements including the adoption of profiling as a fourth telemetry signal, a new user-facing structured logging API, and crucial semantic convention stabilization. The session provides invaluable insights into the project's future, offering actionable intelligence for anyone building, operating, or securing modern distributed…