OpenTelemetry in the Media
16 mentions across press, blogs, and newsletters
August 2026
How to turn slow queries into actionable reliability metrics with OpenTelemetry
Slow SQL queries degrade user experience, cause cascading failures, and turn simple operations into production incidents. The traditional fix? Collect more telemetry. But more telemetry means more things to look at, not necessarily more understanding. Instead...
Cloudflare Launches Agent Tracing for Workers AI Observability with OpenTelemetry Support
Cloudflare has launched agent tracing for its Workers observability system, automatically generating spans for agent invocations, LLM calls, tool executions, and human approvals. Th
Learning Cloud-Native Engineering Beyond Tutorials Through LFX
I joined the LFX mentorship expecting to spend three months writing documentation. A few weeks later, I was deploying OpenTelemetry Collectors across AWS EC2 instances, debugging networking problems between machines, and trying to understand why a...
Cortex completes OSTIF security audit
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Cortex. Cortex functions as a long-term, multi-tenant scalable open source storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Thanks to Quarkslab and...
July 2026
OpenTelemetry has graduated… Now what?
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a long journey, and we’re very...
Sustaining OpenTelemetry: What a 10-week contributor cohort actually looks like
A follow-up to our earlier post: “Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from Dependency Management to Stewardship” *** In April 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, and Bloomberg’s Open Source Program Office came together...
Operating OpenTelemetry at scale with OpAMP
As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises: how to remotely manage, configure, and update this agent fleet in a consistent and secure...
Network boundary for AI agents using NGINX and OpenTelemetry
I recently had an interesting conversation at a KCD about OpenClaw with one of the attendees, and they remarked that they wouldn’t put an agent in their network, because “we don’t know what that thing really...
Watch AWS engineers troubleshoot agentic AI with OpenTelemetry and OpenSearch
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OpenTelemetry Graduates to CNCF's Highest Maturity Level
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the graduation of OpenTelemetry, elevating the project to the foundation's highest level of maturity and for
June 2026
OTel and mesh-derived metrics: A 2026 reference
If you already run an OpenTelemetry pipeline, you have good visibility into what your applications are doing. This blog post is about what you don’t see yet: the east-west traffic between your services, measured at the...
Announcing AI SDK Profiler for React Native
Announcing the AI SDK Profiler plugin for Rozenite DevTools. Capture OpenTelemetry spans from the Vercel AI SDK and inspect AI requests across on-device and cloud providers.
OpenTelemetry Launches “Blueprints” Initiative to Simplify Enterprise Observability Adoption
OpenTelemetry has introduced a new "Blueprints" initiative aimed at reducing the growing complexity of deploying and operating observability systems at scale.
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