OpenTelemetry News is a place to share the latest updates from across the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. You’ll find a mix of community announcements, cross-company contributions, and Datadog updates related to OpenTelemetry.
The Span Event API is being deprecated in favor of the Logs API, OpenTelemetry Profiles enters public Alpha with full Collector integration, the Collector SIG shares a 1.0 progress report, and a new Kotlin Multiplatform SDK enters active development. Also, two Collector releases advance credential management, Kubernetes observability, and metric unit alignment.
Declarative Configuration goes stable, the Collector advances, Semantic Conventions expand, and KubeCon EU approaches — February 2026 in OpenTelemetry.
January 2026 OpenTelemetry News: Collector releases, OTLP exporter renaming, community proposals, and key events around FOSDEM.