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OpenTelemetry Project News
April’s monthly updateApril’s monthly update is now available, special thanks to PM Morgan McLean. Highlights include discovery on a logging data model that captures a common understanding of what a log record is, what data needs to be recorded, transferred, stored and interpreted by a logging system, as well as more info on a new Maintainers SIG and GA coordination as well.
In the metrics world, the v0.4 spec for the Metric API has been approved and mergedapproved and merged. This spec defines the metric instruments and functions that will form the backbone of the API. Special thanks to Josh MacDonaldJosh MacDonald for his efforts here.
In the Rustlang world, the OpenTelemetry client has been updated to 0.5.0.
These OpenTelemetry SIGs are looking for extra support! Open source efforts rely on developers like you -- get involved with one of these implementations:
OTel-RustOTel-Rust is looking for contributors and maintainers
OTel-PHPOTel-PHP is looking for contributors and maintainers
OTel-C++OTel-C++ is looking for contributors and maintainers
OTel-RubyOTel-Ruby has seen a lot of contributions, but would benefit from having more dedicated maintainers
This week’s Featured Issues:
OpenTelemetry-Rust #90: Add configuration to block waiting for batch exporterAdd configuration to block waiting for batch exporter
OpenTelemetry-Rust #: Expose async exporter interfaceExpose async exporter interface
Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links
Python Auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetryPython Auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry (blog) by Alex BotenAlex Boten
The Road to OpenTelemetry: How We Got HereThe Road to OpenTelemetry: How We Got Here (blog) by Jonah KowallJonah Kowall
Building End-to-End Diagnostics: OpenTelemetry IntegrationBuilding End-to-End Diagnostics: OpenTelemetry Integration (blog) by Jimmy BogardJimmy Bogard
A New OpenTelemetry plugin for OrbitDA New OpenTelemetry plugin for OrbitD (repo) by Mark Robert HendersonMark Robert Henderson
Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events
Jimmy BogardJimmy Bogard will be showing his adventures with OpenTelemetry, adding diagnostics events to NServiceBus for messaging and MongoDB, and hooking it up OTel for visualization in Zipkin and Jaeger. You can register hereregister here for the virtual event
KubeCon is officially going virtualofficially going virtual, with dates announced for August 17-20th of this year
Stay tuned to the OpenTelemetry Twitch channelOpenTelemetry Twitch channel for the weekly show ‘OpenTelemetry Tuesdays’, as well as event-specific live streams
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How to Start Contributing to OpenTelemetryHow 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 PythonPython, GoGo, JavaJava, or NodeNode (among others)(among others), find an issue and get started!
Join the community on GitHubcommunity on GitHub and the conversation on Gitterconversation on Gitter
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