Observability

The CNCF announced OpenTelemetry's graduation on May 21, capping seven years of development and a merger of two rival projects into a unified observability standard with 12,000+ contributors.

Grafana Labs shipped version 13 at its annual conference in Barcelona, graduating dynamic dashboards and Git Sync to GA while delivering a rebuilt Loki that runs aggregation queries up to 10x faster.

The OpenTelemetry-native observability startup closes a $110M Series B at a $1B valuation, betting that AI agents will replace manual incident response.

The OpenTelemetry Profiling SIG has promoted its Profiles signal to public alpha, adding vendor-neutral continuous profiling alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Built on Elastic's donated eBPF agent, the new signal supports over a dozen language runtimes with minimal overhead.

Google Cloud now accepts OTLP-format metrics in Cloud Monitoring and offers a fully managed OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline for GKE, joining a broader industry shift toward vendor-neutral observability driven by open standards.