There was a lot of buzz around OpenTelemetry at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2019 at the end of November, including a keynote speech by Liz Fong-Jones and Sarah Novotny, detailing the effective merger of OpenCensus and OpenTracing into OpenTelemetry, how users and vendors alike can focus on getting value out of their data rather than redundant and repetitive instrumentation efforts, and more.
OpenTelemetry Playlist from KubeCon NA '19 (video playlist) including the keynote speech from Sarah Novotny and Liz Fong-Jones, as well as talks from Morgan McLean, Tristan Sloughter, Chris Kleinknecht, Sergey Kanzhelev, and Rob Skillington
OpenTelemetry is an open source project with implementations in many different languages, so whether you prefer to work with Python, Go, erlang, or JavaScript (among others), find an issue and get started!