OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 27

OpenTelemetry Project News

OpenTelemetry had the second highest number of contributions across all CNCF projects over the past quarter! Post-beta buzz is really building. Thank you to all the developers making OpenTelemetry a reality.

In implementation news, OpenTelemetry Python released v0.7.1. This release features tune-ups to auto-instrumentation, as well as a range of updates to the API and SDK.

This past week saw some updates to exporters, including an unoffficial Ruby Honeycomb exporter and an exporter for Elastic.

These OpenTelemetry SIGs are looking for extra support! Open source 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

This week’s Featured Issues:

• OpenTelemetry-PHP #89: Propagators API
• OpenTelemetry-PHP #92: Implement the resource provider

Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links

• Austin Parker is hosting office hours for those of you with OpenTelemetry and instrumentation questions!
• The Stack Doctor, Yuri Grinshteyn, takes a look at Metrics With OpenTelemetry in GCP
• Python Auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry (blog) by Alex Boten

Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events

• Join other DevOps practitioners on May 27th for Open Observability, advancing open source observability! Talks start at 11 am ET. Check out the agenda for more details
• KubeCon is officially going virtual, with dates announced for August 17-20th of this year
• Stay tuned to the OpenTelemetry Twitch channel for the weekly show ‘OpenTelemetry Tuesdays’, as well as event-specific live streams

Want to Contribute?

• OTel Me More has a Gitter! Drop in and say hi. It’s the best place to reach me if you there are any OpenTelemetry events, articles or other OTel resources that you think the community should know about
• 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, Go, Java, or Node (among others), find an issue and get started!
• Join the community on GitHub and the conversation on Gitter