OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 16

OpenTelemetry Project News

• Select OpenTelemetry beta releases are less than two weeks away! Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, and .NET beta are on schedule for availability on March 16th. Beta releases will line up with the v0.3 spec, at least.
• Support OpenTelemetry SIGs! OpenSource efforts rely on developers like YOU – get involved with one of these implementations:
  • OTel-Rust is looking for contributors and maintainers
  • OTel-PHP is looking for contributors and maintainers
  • OTel-C++ is looking for contributors and maintainers
  • OTel-Ruby has seen a lot of contributions, but would benefit from having more dedicated maintainers
• Lightstep and Honeycomb teamed up for an OpenTelemetry workshop at QCon London
• Featured Issues:
  • OpenTelemetry-PHP #11: Alpha 0.2 Distributed Context Requirement - API
  • OpenTelemetry-PHP #14: Alpha 0.2 Sampling Requirement - API

Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links

• The State of Observability in .NET
• OpenTelemetry beta Release Plan (blog) by Morgan McLean
• OpenTracing, OpenCensus & OpenTelemetry: What is Distributed Tracing?

Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events

• Kubecon EU has been postponed due to COVID-19. We will share more information as it becomes available.
• Join us in Boston, MA on April 6 for Observe 20/20, and make sure to check back for details on an OpenTelemetry workshop during the event
• Stay tuned to the OpenTelemetry Twitch channel for the weekly show ‘OpenTelemetry Tuesdays’ and event-specific livestreams

Want to Contribute?

• How to Start Contributing to OpenTelemetry (blog) by Austin Parker
• OpenTelemetry is an open source project with implementations in many different languages, so whether you prefer to work with Python), find an issue and get started!
• Join the community on GitHub

Interested in joining our team? See our open positions here.