2026-01-26¶

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 OpenTelemetry in production and another 26% that they are evaluating it.

Contributing to OTel¶

Have you considered contributing to OpenTelemetry or maybe already started? In either case, you may want to read 6 Things I Learned About OpenTelemetry Contribution (That the Docs Won't Tell You) by Elizabeth.

EDOT Cloud Forwarder¶

The Elastic team shared A train ride away from a million events per second with EDOT Cloud Forwarder by Michalis Katsoulis, Andreas Gkizas, and Miguel Luna.

OTel and AI¶

Can AI instrument OpenTelemetry? ask the folks from Quesma and provide a benchmark with some interesting insights.

Metric discovery platform¶

I stumbled upon metric-registry, an online metrics discovery platform covering context on 3,745 metrics from OpenTelemetry to Prometheus to CloudWatch.

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!