OpenTelemetry Project Update
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 11:15· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16·
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Project reports rapid growth: 7,000 contributions weekly, 550+ active developers, 80+ repos and contributors from 100+ countries; graduation prerequisites are complete and certification/training is in progress. Engineering highlights include profiling as fourth signal with an eBPF-based profiler and collector profile support, a new logs user-facing API alpha (structured events), 43 new collector components and 16 libraries marked 1.0 with the OTLP receiver 1.x next, semantic conventions moving to stability, and collector work on exporter-level batching and tail-sampling performance.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Project introduction
- 2:11Community and growth
- 5:18End-user adoption trends
- 10:26Roadmap and graduation
- 13:06Profiling and logging
- 16:10Semantic conventions
- 20:27Collector and ecosystem
- 22:45Feedback and community
- 25:08Q&A and closing
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