OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 30

OpenTelemetry Project News

🎉 The OpenTelemetry Collector has reached beta! 🎉

This v0.4.0 release features a new hostmetrics receiver, as well as batch and filter metrics processors. Check the release notes for more details on breaking changes and other enhancements.

In step with the Collector, Collector-contrib has released v0.4.0 as well, featuring several new receivers, exporters, and a Kubernetes Observer extension. See the release notes for more details.

The Python implementation has released v0.9.0, primarily working in the updated Metrics instruments.

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-Ruby #253: aws-sdk instrumentation adapter
• OpenTelemetry-Ruby #257: MongoDB Instrumentation Adapter

Awesome Articles, Resources, and Links

• Diagnostics and Instrumentation Packages for MongoDB and NServiceBus Published (blog) by Jimmy Bogard
• Hugo + OpenTelemetry - How fast is my site? Part 1 (blog/video) by Austin Parker
• Austin Parker is hosting office hours, and so is Governance Committee member Liz Fong-Jones –– sign up for one of their sessions if you have OpenTelemetry or observability questions! HJKH2-w8OY)
• Python Auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry (blog) by Alex Boten

Upcoming Conferences, Talks, and Live Events

• Register for How to include Opentelemetry as part of your observability strategy, a webinar with three event times across June 30th and July 2nd
• 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