Applying OpenTelemetry Security Practices in Legacy Environments
OpenTelemetry is expanding into manufacturing and other legacy environments, but traditional systems lack the flexibility to apply cloud‑native security controls. The article explains that security must shift from the source to the telemetry pipeline, emphasizing the role of the OpenTelemetry Collector as a controlled boundary. It recommends deploying Collectors as external bridges, restricting ingestion points, and using data‑redaction processors to protect sensitive operational data. By redesigning the pipeline, organizations can gain observability while respecting the constraints of long‑lived, unpatchable equipment.
Inside the LLM Call: GenAI Observability with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry’s new semantic conventions give developers a standardized way to observe generative‑AI workloads, capturing model names, token counts, latency and optional prompt content. The article demonstrates enabling telemetry in VS Code Copilot, exporting spans, metrics, and events to an OTLP‑compatible backend,...
Deprecating OpenTracing Compatibility Requirements
On March 19, 2026 the OpenTelemetry Specification project merged PR #4938, officially deprecating OpenTracing compatibility requirements. The change reflects the reality that OpenTracing has been archived and most integrations now use native OpenTelemetry APIs and OTLP workflows. While existing shims can remain during...
How Skyscanner Scales OpenTelemetry: Managing Collectors Across 24 Production Clusters
Skyscanner, with 1,400 staff and over 1,000 microservices, has deployed OpenTelemetry collectors across 24 Kubernetes clusters to achieve vendor‑agnostic observability. A central DNS endpoint backed by Istio routes all telemetry to either a Gateway collector (handling bulk OTLP traffic) or...
OpenTelemetry Accepted Elastic's PHP Distro Donation
The OpenTelemetry community has accepted Elastic's donation of the OpenTelemetry PHP Distro, a pre‑packaged observability solution for PHP. The distro bundles native extensions, loaders, and auto‑instrumentation logic into deb, rpm, and apk packages, eliminating the need for custom builds. It...
Inside Adobe's OpenTelemetry Pipeline: Simplicity at Scale
Adobe’s central observability team has built a three‑tier OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline that runs thousands of collectors per signal type across the company. Service teams install a Helm chart that creates an immutable sidecar collector and a configurable deployment collector, which...
Deprecating Span Events API
OpenTelemetry announced the deprecation of its Span Event API, shifting new event emission to the Logs API. The change removes the overlapping span‑event and log‑based event models, while preserving existing span‑event data through a compatibility layer. Language SDKs will phase...
OTTL Context Inference Comes to the Filter Processor
The OpenTelemetry Collector’s Filter Processor now supports OTTL context inference starting with collector‑contrib v0.146.0, introducing top‑level `*_conditions` fields that replace nested context blocks. Operators can write a flat list of expressions, and the processor automatically determines the correct telemetry context...