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CYBER SECURITY • AUGUST 2026

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Metric cardinality limits in OpenTelemetry: a practical guide

OpenTelemetry metrics are designed to be safe to use in production. One part of that safety is the cardinality limit in the metrics SDK. The limit protects your process from unbounded memory growth when a metric receives too many unique attribute combinations. That protection is useful, but it has a consequence many users do not expect: when a metric stream overflows, the total value remains correct, while queries that filter or group by attributes can undercount. This can affect dashboards, service-level objectives (SLOs), and alerts that looked correct before overflow started.

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Proposing the SAFE Working Group: An Open Community Effort to Improve AI Security

The open source community has shown time and again that collaboration produces better software, stronger security, and more resilient infrastructure. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into enterprise applications, developer workflows, and critical infrastructure, we have an opportunity to apply those same principles to one of the industry's newest challenges: learning from AI security incidents.

4 August , 2026
Zabbix Blog

Achieving 100% Observability with BIND and Zabbix

Argentina’s BIND Group is a diversified financial services ecosystem centered around BIND Banco Industrial, offering banking, investment, insurance, leasing, fintech, and digital payment solutions. With roots dating back to Banco Industrial, the group has expanded into a broad portfolio of businesses designed to serve individuals, companies, and fintech partners through innovative financial products and technology-driven services. With the help of Zabbix, BIND completely transformed its monitoring model, migrating from a third-party system with only 3,500 metrics and context-free alerts to an operation where 100% of its infrastructure is monitored. The new environment features team-specific dashboards, automated real-time KPIs, and more than a 90% reduction in manual tasks, with projected cost savings of 93% over the coming years. The challenge BIND needed to completely overhaul its monitoring model to support the growth of its digital operations while improving visibility, operational efficiency, and business alignment

29 July , 2026
Blog on OpenTelemetry

We broke the OTel demo

If you’ve been running the Demo for some time, you may have seen a couple of structural changes lately, and you may even have gotten mad about things not working as expected. We feel your pain and we totally understand it. Unfortunately there was no better way to change things without breaking the existing flow. Some of what you knew is gone. New services were added

28 July , 2026
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OpenTelemetry @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan takes place July 28-30, 2026, in Yokohama, Japan. Register today to join us! Here are all the OpenTelemetry-related sessions, up to date at the time of writing. Session details can change, so confirm dates and times in the official schedule. Community Day Japan Community Day is on Tuesday, July 28, ahead of the main conference. It’s a great way to engage with fellow attendees and with members of local meetup communities, special interest groups, and subgroups within Cloud Native Community Japan.

23 July , 2026
Blog on OpenTelemetry

One-command OpenTelemetry setup on Linux hosts

OpenTelemetry as system dependency Setting up OpenTelemetry for your applications and systems depends on where those apps and systems run. Some are very automated, especially Kubernetes, thanks to the OpenTelemetry Operator, or AWS Lambda, with the OpenTelemetry Lambda layers. But the countless Java, .NET, Node.js, and Python apps running directly on Linux hosts have had no such automation. Instrumenting those has meant downloading agents by hand and wiring up environment variables yourself. At OTel Unplugged EU in Brussels this February, one ask kept coming up: clear packaging, installation, and usage paths

23 July , 2026
Blog on OpenTelemetry

Announcing v1 of OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation

If you write Java, Python, Node.js, or .NET, you have been able to add OpenTelemetry to an application without editing its code for years: attach an agent at startup and telemetry starts flowing. Go has been the exception. A Go program compiles to a single static binary with no runtime to hook into at startup, so Go developers have had to instrument by hand or reach for an out-of-process eBPF agent.

23 July , 2026
Blog on OpenTelemetry

Lambda-powered functions land in OTTL

As telemetry pipelines become more sophisticated, so do the transformations they need to perform: sanitizing sensitive data, normalizing inconsistent schemas, and enforcing attribute contracts. While OTTL provides a rich set of transformation functions, expressing collection operations has required dedicated functions with hardcoded behavior for each new use case. OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.157.0 changes that by introducing lambda expressions to OTTL. Lambdas let users pass inline logic directly to generic higher-order functions, making complex collection transformations both reusable and concise. The release includes eight new functions that leverage this capability: Filter, MapEach, MapKeys, Any, All, Find, Reduce, and When.

22 July , 2026

CORE INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Linux Kernel

    The core open source operating system kernel powering servers, cloud infrastructure, embedded systems, and billions of devices worldwide.

  • Kubernetes

    Production-grade container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of distributed applications.

  • PostgreSQL

    Advanced open source relational database system known for reliability, extensibility, SQL compliance, and enterprise usage.

  • Redis

    High performance in-memory data structure store used for caching, messaging, databases, and real-time applications.

  • Nginx

    High performance web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP infrastructure component powering many internet services.

  • Docker

    Container platform that changed modern software delivery by enabling portable application packaging and deployment.

  • Git

    Distributed version control system designed for speed, reliability, and efficient management of software source code.

  • OpenSSL

    Cryptographic library implementing TLS, encryption algorithms, certificates, and secure communication protocols.

  • OpenTelemetry

    Open source observability framework for collecting and exporting telemetry data including traces, metrics, and logs.

  • TensorFlow

    Open source machine learning framework used for building and deploying artificial intelligence models.

  • PyTorch

    Open source machine learning framework widely used for research, deep learning, and artificial intelligence applications.

  • VS Code

    Open source code editor platform providing extensibility, debugging tools, and development workflows across many languages.

  • Prometheus

    Open source monitoring and alerting system designed for collecting metrics and operating reliable infrastructure.

  • Grafana

    Open source visualization and analytics platform for metrics, logs, traces, and operational monitoring data.

  • Ansible

    Automation platform for configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure orchestration.