What a year it has been for OpenTelemetry! The OTel Demo turned 1, the OpenTelemetry project announced general availability of the OpenTelemetry specification, Trace-Based Testing was added to the OTel Demo, we saw some exciting OTel integrations, and let’s not forget how we had not one, but TWO Observability Days in 2023 - one for KubeCon Europe in Amsterdam, and one for KubeCon North America in Chicago. Those are only a few of the highlights! Many more were featured in past releases of Op...| OpenTelemetry
This year marked many milestones for the OpenTelemetry project. The project achieved the goals it had set in 2019 by announcing the general availability of of the logging signal, the last of the signals it had originally committed to. In addition, the project continued to grow the number of contributors, being the second most active project in the CNCF for a second year in a row, behind Kubernetes.| OpenTelemetry
The OpenTelemetry Demo has been updated to version 1.6, and introduces alpha support for the OpenTelemetry Log signal! Our thoughts on logs Why are we considering logging support to be in alpha? There are a few reasons. The most important is that this is the first time we’ve shipped the demo with a logging database. We chose OpenSearch as the storage backend for logs because it’s a popular option that aligns with the project’s license. It’s worth noting that the demo doesn’t require...| OpenTelemetry