The State of OpenTelemetry: Insights from OTel Unplugged Europe - OpenObservability Talks S6E08
From OpenObservability Talks by Dotan Horovits
February 26, 2026 · 1h 2m · Season 6 · Episode 8
About this episode
The episode discusses insights from the OTel Unplugged event in Brussels, focusing on the current state and challenges of the OpenTelemetry project.
February 2026 the OpenTelemetry community gathered at OTel Unplugged event in Brussels. It was the first time this unconference was held in Europe, bringing together maintainers, contributors, governance committee members, and end usersIn this episode our host Dotan Horovits and guest Juraci Paixão Kröhling will discuss their insights from the event about the current state of the project, roadmap, challenges, community and more. Juraci is a software engineer, a Governance Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and an emeritus maintainer of the Jaeger project, and the co-founder of OllyGarden, an OpenTelemetry-based startup. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/e00f219f7460/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 01:39 - OTel Unplugged background 06:60 - stabilization and graduation 21:49 - OTel blueprints 26:24 - OTel collectors tied to vendors 30:14 - bad telemetry 32:40 - OpenTelemetry-Prometheus compatibility 39:49 - OpenTelemetry Injector 43:07 - OpenTelemetry Weaver 45:33 - Instrumentation Score 51:15 - mobile and browser observability 52:23 - YAML configuration for SDK 55:19 - additional events for OTel community 58:00 - Jaeger v2.15.0 release 1:00:18 - outro…
People in this episode
Host: Dotan Horovits
Guest: Juraci Paixão Kröhling
Topics covered
- OpenTelemetry
- OTel Unplugged
- software engineering
- community insights
- telemetry challenges
- observability
Keywords
- OpenTelemetry
- OTel Unplugged
- telemetry
- observability
- software engineering
- Jaeger
- community
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, OllyGarden
Places: Brussels
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