OpenTelemetry is an open-source project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to provide a unified set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation for telemetry data.

At the end of May, Microsoft introduced the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro. Azure Monitor and all Azure SDKs support OpenTelemetry, integrating with APM systems such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Poor application visibility can cost businesses millions each year. Choosing the right observability tool isn't just a technical decision; it’s a strategic choice that will affect your bottom line and ...

CNCF graduated OpenTelemetry on May 21, 2026. Microsoft added OpenTelemetry to recent .NET, VS Code and Azure tooling. AWS, Google Cloud, Datadog and Grafana document OpenTelemetry support.

The considerable increase in new technologies, frameworks and architectures has led to the emergence of monitoring and observability tools that help gather total visibility into the health and ...

The OpenTelemetry project has announced that key portions of its declarative configuration specification have reached stable status. The observability framework is a vendor-neutral and ...

OpenTelemetry, or OTel, has undeniably become the standard for observability. Adoption across the industry is accelerating, but execution remains a challenge. Many teams struggle to move from the "why ...