At (almost) 40 I just discovered that I have a pretty high degree of aphantasia, and that the normal thing when someone says "picture this" is to actually be able to picture objects in your mind?? What??
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Principal Observability Architect at New Relic, OpenTelemetry Governance Committee emeritus. Lefty, drummer, and photography dabbler. dangb.me
Pro-tip: join the Google groups listed in the "Meeting Invites Group" column here and never miss an update! github.com/open-telemet...
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OpenTelemetry@opentelemetry.io · 2w ago📢 OpenTelemetry community: all Zoom meetings are moving to the LFX Project Control Center. Please update your calendars. Issues or questions? Comment on the tracking issue or ask in #opentelemetry on CNCF Slack. 🔗 github.com/open-telemet...
Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great #FilmSky
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Hanson Ho@bidetofevil.wtf · last mo.Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great #FilmSky
🚀 We've just published the second @opentelemetry.io #Blueprint! This one provides strategic advice for teams aiming to ease adoption of observability best practices in K8s workloads via consistent, efficient, and reliable telemetry platforms. Have a read at opentelemetry.io/docs/guidanc...
Managed Telemetry Platforms for Kubernetes Workloads
Summary This blueprint provides strategic guidance for organizations aiming to follow Platform Engineering practices to ease adoption of OpenTelemetry tooling and standards across their engineering te...
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Great article by @cijothomas.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing! In my career I've had to have this argument many times, with many teams. So, from experience, I also ask you not to wrap #OTel APIs (unless you really really need it)
OpenTelemetry@opentelemetry.io · last mo.That well-meaning TelemetryHelper wrapper over #OpenTelemetry? It probably hurts more than helps: kills zero-alloc paths, adds lookups to your hot path, and your team learns the wrapper instead of #OTel. Skip the wrapper. 👇 buff.ly/snwRG0A
Here's your friendly reminder to sign up and/or submit a CFP for Observability Summit EU. WHEN: October 5th, 2026 (same week as OSSummit EU) WHERE: Prague, Czechia CFP closes July 7th. Find out more: 👉
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Observability Summit bring the observability community together to collaborate and advance open source observability tools & practices.
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@opentelemetry is officially a CNCF graduated project! 🎓🎉 OpenTelemetry has become the trusted de facto observability standard helping teams gain better visibility across distributed systems. Congrats to this incredible community! Read more about the milestone here: https://bit.ly/4fvcHAb
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#OpenTelemetry is a #CNCF graduated project From OpenCensus and OpenTracing to today, this project has been a community effort from the start. Thank you to everyone who contributed code, docs, specs, reviews, feedback, and end-user experiences. This milestone belongs to you. buff.ly/SSE3ct3
OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that OpenTelemetry has graduated. Graduation is an important milestone for the project and reflects the strength of the OpenTelemetry…
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During the last @infoq.com Dev Summit in Munich Wayne Bell and I talked about the need for OpenTelemetry, what it means to run an observability platform as a product, and the hardest thing of all this cool techy stuff: having the right culture for it. Watch it here! www.infoq.com/presentation...
Building a Future-Proof Observability Platform to Empower Engineers
Wayne Bell and Dan Gomez Blanco discuss the architectural and cultural shift required to scale observability at Skyscanner. They share how moving to OpenTelemetry decoupled instrumentation from vendor...
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🗓️ Over a year in the making 📈 One of the fastest-growing projects in #OpenTelemetry Introducing the Ecosystem Explorer The Ecosystem Explorer helps you understand OTel before you start. We’re starting with Java, with plenty more to come. Got ideas? Come build with us. buff.ly/EAfFJZg
Introducing the Ecosystem Explorer Project
OpenTelemetry is vast. The Java agent alone includes over 240 different auto-instrumentations. The Collector has hundreds of components. Python, JavaScript, Go, and .NET each have their own…
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Great summary of how @skyscanner.net adopted #OpenTelemetry at scale! 60M requests/minute in that service mesh definitely puts things to the test
OpenTelemetry@opentelemetry.io · 4mo agoOur third feature on real-world #OpenTelemetry deployments focuses on Skyscanner, a global travel search platform. With more than 1,000 microservices across two dozen production clusters, Skyscanner operates #OTel at scale. Read our latest post for their valuable insights! buff.ly/oIqBiJF
Sometimes, when I've had a bad day, I like reminding myself to "not be too harsh and the pursuit of perfection". Some wisdom from a vinyl installation tutorial I got for an old laptop, that lives permanently on my fridge door now.
Hey, no offence to the folks at #KubeCon that were wearing all the badges from past editions on their lanyard. It's fucking effort and one should be proud. But, I've rewatched Office Space not long ago and the only thing I could think was "we need to talk about your flair"
It's hard to believe who first thought sending messages on WhatsApp was a suitable form of communication for recruiters.
I have a joke about OTel, but folks don't always get the context
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 5mo agoI have a joke about Kubernetes, but it’s a clusterfuck.
🚨 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is fast approaching! Will we see you there? Make sure to add #OpenTelemetry talks and events to your plans. We combed the event schedule so you don't have to!
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon EU in Amsterdam from March 23 - 26, 2026. Register today to join us!…
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On-premises data centers, legacy apps, industrial control systems. These are just some of the traditional environments presenting challenges to implementing modern observability. In our latest blog post, learn how to make formerly opaque systems observable with #OpenTelemetry. buff.ly/90xC2ME
Demystifying OpenTelemetry: Why You Shouldn’t Fear Observability in Traditional Environments
For decades, traditional technology environments, ranging from on-premises data centers to legacy applications and industrial control systems, have powered the core of many organizations. These…
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This illegal invasion of another country while its citizens sleep is a cynical act of American imperialism. The fact that Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves makes this feel very familiar. Greens stand against this contempt of international law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Venezuela latest: Trump says US has 'captured' President Maduro in strikes on country - latest
The US President says Maduro has been
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The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.
日本のOpenTelemetryユーザーの皆さん、ぜひご意見をお聞かせください！ 2026年の計画を立てるにあたり、皆様のオブザーバビリティへの取り組みを真に支援するイベントやコンテンツを共に作って行きましょう！ ご意見はこちらへ：
OpenTelemetry 日本コミュニティサーベイ
本調査は、日本のOpenTelemetryコミュニティをより深く理解するために実施しています。皆様からのご意見は、全国の開発者、SRE、エンジニアのニーズに真に応えるイベント、コンテンツ、活動の企画に役立てます。所要時間は約5～10分です。ぜひご協力をお願いします。 注：本調査は日本在住の方を対象としています。 調査実施期間：<yyyy-mm-dd> から <yyyy-mm-dd> まで
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sparrowsleeps.com/collections/... This popped up on my Tidal discovery for some reason! Currently listening to their Offspring's "The Kids Aren't Alright" rendition. I'm not a parent, but I know what I would be listening to if I was one!
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🎁 Give yourself an early gift: register for OTel Unplugged EU! Feb 2 in Brussels. Unconference = you control the agenda. Limited spots. Perfect if you're already planning FOSDEM attendance 🎯 buff.ly/aaUyQsx Help us reach more people - repost! 🔄
🌲 Who’s ready for a cozy holiday chat about the past, present, and future of #OpenTelemetry? Join us to hear about early challenges, key improvements to the spec, tooling, and developer experience, and exciting developments we’re most looking forward to in 2026. 📍Sign-up here: ow.ly/WARi50XxQfo
Panel discussion: An OTel Carol: Past, present, and future of OpenTelemetry
In this holiday-themed panel, OpenTelemetry experts share the most exciting developments this year, including new projects, improvements, and what's in store for 2026.
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Spent my Thanksgiving playing with public incident data and seeing if it was under statistical control. surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/27/f...
Fun with incident data and statistical process control
Last year, I wrote a post called TTR: the out-of-control metric. In that post, I argued that the incident response process(in particular, the time-to-resolution metric for incidents) will never be …
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Good readout (and impressively fast postmortem) of Cloudflare’s incident. It hits all the usual signs of a painful P1 of this scale… blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
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The Governance Committee has published a new statement on the blog, outlining proposals around improving the user experience, stability, and release practices across the project. We’d appreciate feedback from users and maintainers.
Evolving OpenTelemetry's Stabilization and Release Practices
Summary OpenTelemetry is, by any metric, one of the largest and most exciting projects in the cloud native space. Over the past five years, this community has come together to build one of the most…
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Company-wide day off today, time to (finally) start editing photos from a recent trip! This is about 2/15 days... so much good stuff to go through 500px.com/p/dan_gomezb...
Considering the travel disruption expected for folks travelling to Atlanta, here's an idea that #KubeCon NA could copy from KubeCon EU... Rotate countries in NA every other year! I mean, who doesn't like the sound of KubeCon Cancun?
Loving the thumbnail (randomly?) chosen for this recording from #KCD Edinburgh! "So, which signal should I use?" would've been a great title for this talk too, because that (plus giving logs the love they deserve) is what we tried to cover in less than 25 minutes 😄 #otel #opentelemetry
Dan Gomez Blanco | Robert Pająk - OpenTelemetry Signals: Using the Right Tool for the Right Purpose
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