Have you ever wished you could extract individual events from a concatenated mess of a log record? Now you can! Add the unroll processor to your #OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines to expand bundled log records in a clean, deterministic way. Read more in our latest post! buff.ly/wZCiiG2

Everyone knows #OpenTelemetry's attributes can be easily filtered and aggregated by any backend. But what happens when the data itself is complex? We are excited to announce support for complex data across all #OTel signals starting with OTLP 1.9.0. Learn more in our latest post. buff.ly/ItZ07JS

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

The #OTel project is thrilled to share the first release of #OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI)! Use OBI to instrument all applications, all programming languages, all libraries with a single command. 👏 Zero effort. 👏 Maximum gain. Read our latest blog post to learn more! buff.ly/jgkBx4e

The 2025 Governance Committee election results are now available. Thank you to all the candidates as well as all of the voters, and congratulations to the elected GC members! buff.ly/piKPnJY

One week left to recognize outstanding OpenTelemetry community members. Nominations close Nov 6. Take a minute to submit up to five names:

Last call to vote! The 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election closes today at noon (UTC). Make sure your voice is counted: ✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/6xn7MYb 🗳️ buff.ly/tQUXYHt

🗳️ 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!

🗳️ 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

Missed our first "What's New in OTel"? No problem! Catch it on-demand on our YouTube channel, and stay tuned for more streams in the series coming your way!

Know someone who made OpenTelemetry better this year? Nominate them for the 2025 Community Awards:

🎤 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

Read about the he declarative configuration journey and learn why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/de...

⏳ Our next OTel Live session is happening tomorrow. Don’t miss the chance to catch up on what’s new in the OpenTelemetry project. Hear directly from maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez as they share updates from across the ecosystem. 🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC 🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO

Last call: Governance Committee nominations close soon! Now’s your chance to step up, or nominate someone you respect. Nominations are due 17 October 2025, 23:59 UTC. Submit via PR to the candidate list. 🔗 buff.ly/aQgDvAp

Help spotlight the people moving #OpenTelemetry forward. Nominations for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards are open until November 6th. Take a minute to nominate: opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/co...

OpenTelemetry is adopting the W3C TraceContext Level 2 draft recommendation as the foundation for consistent sampling! Read more:

If you’ve missed some of the updates on the OpenTelemetry project, here’s your chance to catch up. Join us at our next OTel Live session, where maintainers Severin Neumann and Marylia Gutierrez will share the latest developments in OTel. 🗓️ October 21 🕒 3:00–4:00 PM UTC 🔗 RSVP: buff.ly/NpZsMWO

The #OpenTelemetry on Mainframes SIG was formed to enable the most important #OTel components for the mainframe. To prioritize their work, the SIG conducted a survey earlier this year. Check out the link for their key findings and to learn how to get involved! opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ma...

📣 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

⏰ Counting down to our first OTel NYC meetup! We can’t wait to meet everyone, talk all things observability, and just have a good time together. Haven’t RSVP’d yet? There’s still time 👉

Automatic instrumentation can seem like magic—but it’s not! The latest #OpenTelemetry blog breaks down how it really works, from monkey patching and bytecode instrumentation to eBPF and runtime APIs. buff.ly/aWbGOzf

Ever wonder what it's like to be a maintainer in a large open source project? Read our latest blog post to learn about the hard-working, passionate group of people who are steering the #OpenTelemetry project and building its community. opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/da...

We are excited to launch our second annual #OpenTelemetry Community Awards! Do you know folks whose contributions deserve recognition? Nominate up to five awesome humans before midnight UTC on November 6! Winners will be announced at #KubeConNA! opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/co...

Nominations are open for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards! Celebrate the people driving OpenTelemetry forward. Nominate up to 5 contributors by Nov 6:

🎉 OTel NYC’s Inaugural Meetup is coming your way! Join fellow OpenTelemetry and observability enthusiasts in NYC for an evening of learning and networking. 📅 Date: Wednesday, October 15 👉 Register here: buff.ly/VfbKB9B Let’s grow the OTel NYC community together! 💪

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!

🚀 #OpenTelemetry Android is on the road to stable! Check out what’s coming, get involved, and share your feedback! opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/an...

Our latest OTel in Practice session with Dakota Paasman was packed with practical insights on scaling OTel log integration. If you missed it (or not 😊) the full recording is available here: buff.ly/fpvHQQW

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

Call for contributors! The #OpenTelemetry Kotlin project proposal is looking for contributors to maintain the codebase and influence the project's direction. Our latest blog post has the details! opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ko...

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

Our latest blog post is a retrospective of the go.opentelemetry.io certificate expiration incident that occurred on September 25. Find out what happened and what #OpenTelemetry project leaders learned from it. opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/go...

We've confirmed that go.opentelemetry.io is now properly serving a valid SSL certificate. Apologies for the interruption, go builds/pulls should now function.

We’re aware of a SSL issue currently impacting our Golang package proxy (go.opentelemetry.io). A fix has been applied, but will take some time due to DNS. Apologies for the inconvenience.

We had a great time learning about scaling OTel log ingestion with Dakota Paasman. 🚀 If you missed the session or were present but would like to revisit it, you can catch the recording here: buff.ly/fpvHQQW

📣 It's finally here! Come learn from Dakota Paasman a few things about scaling OTel log ingestion. Just a few hours to go. 🕢 Today at 10:00 PDT / 17:00 CEST Secure your spot here: buff.ly/Q0a2Hvk

Quick reminder about that OTel in Practice session we've been on about. Dakota's covering some practical optimization techniques that sound pretty useful. The kind of stuff you bookmark for when you actually need it. 📅 Sept 24 | 10:00 PDT / 17:00 CEST Don't forget to register: buff.ly/Q0a2Hvk

If you've ever stared at a Kafka backlog wondering "how do I fix this?", then this OTel in Practice session is for YOU! Dakota Paasman will walk us through how they cleared a massive Kafka backlog in under 48 hours. Save the date! 📅 Sep 24, 10:00 PDT / 17:00 CEST 👉 Register here → buff.ly/Q0a2Hvk

Join us for another interesting edition of OTel in Practice. This time, Dakota Paasman of Bindplane will show us how they scaled KafkaLog Ingestion for OTel by a whopping 150%. 📅 Sep 24, 10:00 PDT / 17:00 CEST 👉 RSVP here → buff.ly/Q0a2Hvk

Have you been meaning to fill out the OTel Collector survey? Here's your friendly reminder 😉. It’s closing soon. buff.ly/1QgiXo4

New blog post for everyone who wants to get started with contributing to #OpenTelemetry:

🚀 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.

Metrics are the quantitative backbone of observability—the numbers that tell us how our systems are performing. This is the third post in our OpenTelemetry naming series, this time we tackle the art of naming the measurements that matter.

☀️ New week, fresh start! Before diving into emails and meetings, take 5 minutes to shape the future of the OTel Collector. Your feedback = better tools for all of us.

🚨 Reminder: The OTel Collector follow-up survey is still open! If you haven’t shared your thoughts yet, please take a few minutes to do that. Your feedback is important.

You know that one system? The one running in a corner, doing a critical job? It’s reliable, but it’s also a black box. No one touches it in case it breaks.🫣 But what if there's a low-risk way to see inside? Our latest blog post shows how to instrument legacy apps to gain visibility. buff.ly/lviDk7m

📢 The OTel Collector follow-up survey will be closing soon. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts if you haven’t already. Your input really helps us improve 🙌 Survey link:

Naming is hard, but it doesn't have to be! #OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions are designed to standardize naming across your telemetry. Next up in the naming series, today's blog post guides you through how to name your #OTel span attributes. Read, learn, do! buff.ly/7cuNoYJ

Our latest blog post shows how the End User SIG created a low-effort, data-driven way for the community to signal what matters most. So the next time you’re browsing issues, don’t read and leave. If an issue resonates, give the description a 👍. That’s it. Like it. That’s the signal. buff.ly/qczEqCH