Hope to see you all at Unplugged (or FOSDEM?)

Join us in Brussels on Monday, February 2, 2026—the day after FOSDEM—for OTel Unplugged EU 2026, an unconference shaped by and for the OpenTelemetry community. events.humanitix.com/otelunplugge...

Not sure why I was expecting a slide being added directly, when I clicked the Copilot button from within PowerPoint and asked it to add a slide based on the prompt I provided ...

🔥 Mark your calendars! OTel Unplugged EU 2026 is happening Feb 2 in Brussels (day after FOSDEM) No slides, just real technical conversations with the #OpenTelemetry community. You pick the topics. Limited space! Register: buff.ly/aaUyQsx 🔄 Please repost to help us reach the community!

The #OpenTelemetry project is deprecating the #Zipkin exporter specification in favor of Zipkin's OTLP ingestion support. Learn more about migrating in our latest blog post. opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/de...

🦾 Meet agenticc, the llm-powered C compiler, that agentically compiles your C code into an AI-powered application! 🦿👇 github.com/svrnm/agenti...

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15304

"And if your OSS contributions do lead to your dream job, like they did for me, remember to balance the scales one last time. Pass on your knowledge to new contributors and especially to new tech writers. Pay it forward." Tiffany Hrabusa at @writethedocs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqry...

Dallas, you were awesome. 🤘 Thanks to everyone who came by the Causely booth at @grafana.bsky.social #ObservabilityCON On the Road yesterday! Great convos, great energy, and, of course, great swag. 🦈

What makes OTel Unplugged different? No fixed talks — you set the agenda. ➕ Attendee-driven breakouts ➕ Maintainer & end-user discussions ➕ End-of-day OpenTelemetry roadmap session 📍 Sparks Meeting (Brussels) | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 🎟️ Register:

DevOps. SRE. Platform Engineering. Same goals, different disciplines, but the nuances matter. This post aims to clear things up, helping teams align on who owns what and how the pieces fit together 🧩 www.causely.ai/blog/sre-dev...

#kubecon #cloudnativecon job board is busy!

the cisco ospo reunion we all wanted @auggie.dev @svrnm.com

Last call: OpenTelemetry Community Awards nominations close soon! If someone helped you ship, scale, or learn this year, nominate them now:

🎃 Happy Halloween from Causely 👻 In a world haunted by false positives and spurious alerts, one terrifying truth remains: Correlation is futile. Our favorite Shark-Of-9 knows it too: you can’t guess your way to reliability! Stay spooky. Stay causal.

Calling all #KubeCon friends! We’re co-hosting a 🍻Happy Hour with @clickhouse.com + Buf! Good drinks, great people, better reliability. RSVP → luma.com/56t729bb + See how we integrate with ClickStack to find the why behind system slowdowns: www.causely.ai/blog/causely...

🗳️ The 2025 OpenTelemetry GC Election is underway! If you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time to help shape the future of the project. ✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/6xn7MYb 🗳️ Vote here: buff.ly/tQUXYHt Voting closes Oct 30, noon (UTC) — don’t miss your chance to have a say!

1 high-stakes migration, 0 downtime. Learn how Quantum Metric validated every stage of a Google Kubernetes Engine Dataplane V2 cutover, all while running at 30k+ RPS. #GKE #Dataplane #Kubernetes #K8s www.causely.ai/blog/quantum...

🗳️ It’s time! Voting is open for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election. Check your status here, if you’re an eligible voter: buff.ly/6xn7MYb Then cast your vote: buff.ly/tQUXYHt

TIL GitHub profile pages have become the new MySpace pages ... I need to rework mine :-O

🎤 OpenTelemetry Unplugged We’re bringing the community together the day after FOSDEM for an unconference: attendee-driven breakouts and a project roadmap session run with the OTel Governance Committee. 📍 Sparks Meeting, Brussels | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 | ⏰ 09:00–19:00 🎟️ Register: buff.ly/LYKI9dl

Want to recognise a contributor or say some nice words about someone that made your life easier, or that helped OpenTelemetry grow? Nominate them for the OpenTelemetry Community Awards! This could be anyone, inside or outside the OpenTelemetry project!

If you're like me and can't keep track of all of the happenings in #OpenTelemetry, then we've got just the thing for YOU! Presenting our very first edition of "What's New in OTel?", featuring OTel maintainers @svrnm.com and @marylia.dev. Tune in live, and bring your questions! Details below!

📣 OTel Unplugged is headed to Brussels in February 2026! A full day of in-person conversation and collaboration! Unconference sessions only—no organized talks. We’ll shape the next chapter of the #OpenTelemetry roadmap. Details on registration and sponsorship in our latest blog. buff.ly/vC9kqtZ

OpenTelemetry + Prometheus = instant visibility + faster fixes ⚡ For Severin Neumann, the best part of #CloudNative is the community that helps you grow 🌐 Thank you, @svrnm.com !

Get ready #CloudNative fans! #KubeCon North America is almost here! If you're wondering where to find all things #OpenTelemetry, we've got you covered. Bookmark our latest blog post so you don't miss a thing!

Join us in welcoming the newest members of the #OpenTelemetry Technical Committee! 🎉 buff.ly/9Ctgeit

Care about the governance of #OpenTelemetry? Want to have a say in the future of the project? Make your voice heard in the upcoming GC election! If eligible, make sure you're on the voter roll. Nominate yourself or someone else as a candidate! Learn more in the #OTel blog post. buff.ly/hkViInd

🚀 Vești bune pentru comunitatea din România! Documentația OpenTelemetry are acum o pagină de prezentare disponibilă în limba română 🇷🇴 Construim acest proiect împreună și ne-ar bucura să avem alături mai mulți contribuitori vorbitori de română.

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Check out this week's o11y newsletter with great OpenTelemetry practices and recommendations: o11y.news/2025-09-08/ #observability

🪄 Automatic instrumentation isn’t magic, it’s code. Code that comes with trade-offs you must understand. You can’t afford to treat it like a black box. This blog unpacks 5 techniques for automatic instrumentation with lab examples you can try. www.causely.ai/blog/demysti...

Ми раді повідомити, що наш вебсайт тепер доступний українською! Це полегшить початок роботи для українських розробників! We are happy to announce that our website is now available in Ukrainian! This will make it easier for Ukrainian developers to get started!

AI 🤝 Scammers

Are you curious how different techniques for automatic instrumentation work? I wrote a blog post and created a lab that give an overview over the most common mechanisms: Repo: github.com/causely-oss/... Blog: www.causely.ai/blog/demysti...

When distributed systems fail, it’s often not due to lack of data — it’s lack of understanding. Watch this ‪dzone‬ webinar to learn how causal reasoning is helping teams solve reliability issues at the source. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuro...

Production failures aren’t noise problems. They’re signal problems. 📢⚠️ Causely cofounder Endre Sara shares why the hardest part of incident response is knowing what to pay attention to — and how AI can help. causely.ai/blog/the-sig... #DevOps #SRE #Observability

Earlier this year, we heard from #OpenTelemetry contributors in our Contributor Experience Survey. Now we're ready to release the results! Thank you to all the contributors who took time to complete the survey! buff.ly/jrSL5lf

এখন থেকে #OpenTelemetry এর হোমপেজ বাংলায়ও উপলব্ধ! বাংলাভাষী ডেভেলপারদের জন্য অবজারভেবিলিটি শেখা এখন আরও বেশি সহজ। এখানে দেখুন: opentelemetry.io/bn --- We’re excited to share that our website is now available in Bengali! This makes it easier for Bengali-speaking developers to get started!

Last week before our #OpenTelemetry #Contributor Survey closes. Take it and help us enhance the contributor experience. We appreciate your time and feedback!

We’re thrilled to announce that #OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0 is here!

Take our #OpenTelemetry #Contributor Survey and help us enhance the contributor experience. We appreciate your time and feedback!

OpenTelemetry in Deno! Please try it out an let us know what you think. I think it's a game changer. Docs: docs.deno.com/runtime/fund...

What's your experience with GitHub actions as an open source maintainer? What are best practices you can share? I will be speaking about this at the Maintainer Summit, and while I have my own learnings, I am curious to hear from others as well! maintainersummiteu2025.sched.com/event/1uSND/

Are you a #mainframe user? Then take our #OpenTelemetry on Mainframe priorities survey to let us know, which activities we should focus on!

New blog post: #Kubernetes annotation-based discovery for the #OpenTelemetry Collector

Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation, read the full announcement: