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Your AI agent just took 45 seconds to answer a simple question. Was it the
model? A slow tool call? A retry loop?#OpenTelemetry is making it easier to find the answers with semantic conventions for generative AI. Learn more in today's post!
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🚀 Calling all end users! We're excited to announce the launch of #OTel blueprints and reference implementations! 🚀
With guidance from experts, you can build production-ready telemetry pipelines that span multiple #OpenTelemetry components.
Learn more and contribute! 👇️
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🇳🇱 OTel Night in Amsterdam, May 20, 2026
OTel Night is a community meetup for practitioners running #OpenTelemetry in production. This edition features the team at #ING walking through how one of Europe's largest banks runs observability at scale.
Join us for food and drinks and to chat with fellow engineers!
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🗓️ Over a year in the making
📈 One of the fastest-growing projects in #OpenTelemetryIntroducing the Ecosystem Explorer
#OTel is huge: hundreds of instrumentations across a dozen languages, plus the Collector. Figuring out what telemetry you actually get used to mean deploying first.
Not anymore. The Ecosystem Explorer helps you understand OTel before you start. We’re starting with Java, with plenty more to come.
Got ideas? Come build with us.
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/introducing-the-ecosystem-explorer/
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Earlier this year, the #OpenTelemetry project ran a survey of the 🇯🇵Japanese🇯🇵 community. We wanted to know how Japanese practitioners are using OTel and how engaged they are in the ecosystem. Our goal is to meaningfully grow usage and engagement in the region based on what we learned. The survey results are out now!
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OpenTelemetry ❤️ Prometheus!
The #OpenTelemetry and #Prometheus communities are strengthening interoperability, and we want your input!
🛠️ If you’re building with both, check out the client library doc to understand key similarities and differences, plus updates on Prometheus compatibility and exporter spec stabilization. Links in thread.
📄 We’re also supporting an LFX mentorship to improve interoperability docs.
🗳️ Running both together? Take our 3-minute survey! https://buff.ly/XhVm0Fg
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Our third feature on real-world #OpenTelemetry deployments focuses on Skyscanner, a global travel search platform. With more than 1,000 microservices across two dozen production clusters, Skyscanner operates #OTel at scale. Read our latest post for their valuable insights!
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Three pillars becomes four.
The #OpenTelemetry project is excited to share that profiles are now alpha! With #OTel profiles, you get an industry-wide standard for production profiling, with true vendor neutrality and powered by community and ecosystem support.
Read more details in our latest post!
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A passing of the torch. 🔥
Last month, #OpenTelemetry welcomed new Community Managers. The #OTel community has quadrupled in size under Austin's stewardship. We are grateful for his years of hard work building the community into what it is today and look forward to Reese, Adriana, and Julia's vision for the future!
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The #OpenTelemetry Collector is a critical component of using #OTel in production. To learn how organizations are deploying, configuring, and monitoring the Collector, we ran a survey in 2025. The results tell us how the Collector is being used today, and how its usage has changed since 2024. Read our latest blog post for all the details!
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-collector-follow-up-survey-analysis/
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#OTel is for everyone...even other open source projects! Find out how #Dapr contributors improved tracing observability with #OpenTelemetry.
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/dapr-workflow-observability/