OpenTelemetry Graduates at CNCF, Solidifying Status as De Facto Observability Standard

Originally published on Virtualization Review — May 21, 2026

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OpenTelemetry (OTel), the open source observability framework for collecting traces, metrics, and logs, has officially graduated at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. All major cloud providers — Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, and Google Cloud Observability — now support OTLP ingestion, cementing OpenTelemetry as the unified, vendor-neutral standard for cloud-native observability. The graduation marks a milestone for a project that has become one of the most widely adopted pieces of infrastructure in cloud-native computing.

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