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2026-05-04

OTel ecosystem explorer

Amazing effort of the OTel community: check out Introducing the Ecosystem Explorer Project, by Jay DeLuca, via the official OTel blog to learn more about this resource that helps you to navigate the project.

InfoQ: CloudWatch OTel metrics

Renato Losio wrote an InfoQ article, Amazon CloudWatch Introduces OpenTelemetry Metrics Support in Preview, and while I don't work at AWS anymore, I was involved in this initiative and very glad seeing this.

OTel shared maturity model

Kasper Borg Nissen of Dash0 argued Moving Beyond “Supports OpenTelemetry”: Why There’s a Need for a Shared Maturity Model and I will dive deep into this super important and timely topic.

OTel & Prometheus

Great Bluesky post by the OTel project on strengthening interoperability. Check out and consider providing feedback via OpenTelemetry ❤️Prometheus!

Tooling

Tooling I stumbled upon and found interesting and/or helpful:

  • Observability 360, your world-wide map for providers.
  • nexus-labs-automation/mobile-observability, teaches Claude how to instrument mobile apps.

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Bluesky DM. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!

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