observability news

2026-05-11

May 11, 2026

OTel updates This past week was an amazing one for the OpenTelemetry project, from most generic to most specific things: OpenTelemetry graduates! After 6+...

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2026-05-04

May 4, 2026

OTel ecosystem explorer Amazing effort of the OTel community: check out Introducing the Ecosystem Explorer Project, by Jay DeLuca, via the official OTel blog...

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2026-04-27

April 27, 2026

Skyscanner scales OTel Another week, another awesome end-user story via the OTel blog: How Skyscanner scales OpenTelemetry: managing collectors across 24...

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2026-04-20

April 20, 2026

Airbnb's metrics migration Another great end-user story, this time around via the Airbnb Tech Blog: Eugene Ma's Building a high-volume metrics pipeline with...

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2026-04-13

April 13, 2026

Adobe's OpenTelemetry pipeline Via the official OTel blog: read Inside Adobe's OpenTelemetry pipeline: simplicity at scale, by Johanna Öjeling, Juliano...

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2026-04-06

April 6, 2026

CloudWatch open standards Very glad about this, we've been working on it now for a bit and last week we launched it: support for OTLP ingest of metrics and...

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2026-03-30

March 30, 2026

OTel profiles enters public alpha Very happy to see that OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha, details via the official OTel blog by Alexey Alexandrov,...

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2026-03-23

March 23, 2026

Dry-run mode for OTel collector Simon Aronsson wrote about Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector, allowing you to validate the impact of...

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2026-03-16

March 16, 2026

Reducing o11y bill Bahman Movaqar wrote about Log Quad: Domesticate Your Logging Bill, showing you how to understand what is useful, what can be more...

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2026-03-09

March 9, 2026

OTel transform processor Read Mastering the OpenTelemetry Transform Processor by Ayooluwa Isaiah to learn what this important processor is and how to use it....

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2026-02-23

February 23, 2026

OTel for troubleshooting Read Troubleshooting Microservices with OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing by the Sematext team, covering practical troubleshooting...

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2026-02-16

February 16, 2026

Log deduplication processor In Fixing Noisy Logs with OpenTelemetry Log Deduplication Ayooluwa Isaiah explains in a hands-on manner how to use the log...

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2026-02-09

February 9, 2026

OTel batch processor Read Why the OpenTelemetry Batch Processor is Going Away (Eventually) by Julia Furst Morgado to learn what the future holds and how you...

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2026-01-26

January 26, 2026

CNCF survey The CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey is now available for you to peruse. I found it interesting that 49% of participants asked stated they use...

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2026-01-19

January 19, 2026

OTel for traditional envs From the official OTel blog: read Demystifying OpenTelemetry: Why You Shouldn’t Fear Observability in Traditional Environments by...

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2026-01-05

January 5, 2026

Observability 2026 Via TNS: Can OpenTelemetry Save Observability in 2026? by B. Cameron Gain considers various topics from data lakes to OTel, and how things...

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2025-12-22

December 22, 2025

OTel in the browser Reducing OpenTelemetry Bundle Size in Browser Frontend by Elizabeth from SigNoz contains some good tips to optimize the OTel footprint in...

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2025-12-08

December 8, 2025

Observable load testing In Introducing Observable Load Testing = Locust + OpenTelemetry! Lars Holmberg explains in a hands-on manner how to apply OTel to a...

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2025-12-01

December 1, 2025

OpenSearch PPL Read Better observability, deeper insights: OpenSearch’s new Piped Processing Language capabilities by Anas Alkouz, Fanit Kolchina, and Ritvi...

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2025-11-24

November 24, 2025

Advanced network observability Amazon EKS introduced a set of advanced network observability features, providing you with dynamic visualizations including...

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