Otel_updates

OpenTelemetry deprecates Zipkin exporters in favor of native OTLP support. Migration paths and timeline through December 2026.

OpenTelemetry proposes stability changes: stable-by-default distributions, decoupled instrumentation, and epoch releases for production deployments.

The OTel unroll processor splits bundled log records into individual events. Now in Collector Contrib v0.137.0 for VPC and CloudWatch logs.

OTLP 1.9.0 adds support for maps, arrays, and byte arrays across all OTel signals. Here's when to use complex attributes and when to stick with flat.

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is now in alpha, bringing protocol-level telemetry capture without code changes or restarts.

Declarative Config brings structure to OTel SDKs with clean, rule-based settings that stay consistent across every environment.

One sampling decision, propagated everywhere. OpenTelemetry's Consistent Probability Sampling fixes fragmented traces across services.

Understand how to name spans, attributes, and metrics in OpenTelemetry for consistent, queryable, and reliable observability data.

Automatically instrument your apps on Linux with the OTel Injector, no code changes, minimal setup, and support for Java, Node.js, Python, and .NET.

Achieve consistent, reliable observability with OTel Weaver, validate and standardize telemetry using semantic conventions at ingest.

Prometheus 3.0 supports resource attribute promotion for OpenTelemetry metrics, enabling direct labeling without `target_info` joins.