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OpenTelemetry

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OpenTelemetry
20 December 2025 • 44 min read

An OTel Carol: Past, present, and future of OpenTelemetry panel recap

Join your favorite OTel thought leaders for a lighthearted journey through the past, present, and future of OpenTelemetry. We’ll cover early challenges, key improvements to the spec, tooling, and developer experience, and exciting developments we’re most looking forward to in 2026.

Category Articles ( 26 )

OpenTelemetry
14 November 2024 • 5 min read

Developing a mobile crash model for OpenTelemetry

Background services and background threading are a vital part of any mobile application, but they can also be a source of crashes and other issues. To ensure the smooth operation of background services and threads, monitoring and analyzing their performance using metrics is essential.
OpenTelemetry
12 September 2024 • 9 min read

Top 5 podcasts on the future of mobile observability and the impact of OpenTelemetry

The past few weeks have been a testament to the keen interest in today’s trends – and future innovations – for mobile observability. The Embrace team has been busy joining the industry’s most opinionated thought leaders on podcasts for candid conversations around the role mobile plays in the rapidly evolving observability ecosystem. We’ve rounded up our favorites from the Embrace summer podcast tour, with standout takeaways and quotes. If one thing comes across, it’s that proactively understanding how your users are experiencing your mobile applications is a challenge and an opportunity for teams today. Consumer behavior has changed so quickly…can engineering teams keep up? Sit back and tune in – we’ve taken notes for you already.
OpenTelemetry
17 August 2024 • 4 min read

A Giant Leap For Span.Kind

At Embrace, we've been excited about meeting and growing the OpenTelemetry specification for some time now. We also have a ton of domain-specific knowledge about how mobile telemetry should be collected and processed. This led to a decision point while rebuilding our mobile SDKs to emit OpenTelemetry primitives: how can we quickly inform the data ingest layer about the types of telemetry we're sending, to make its life easier?
OpenTelemetry
24 July 2024 • 1 min read

Use the OTel Tracing API and see your traces in Embrace with our new implementation for Android

Embrace's Android OpenTelemetry (OTel) SDK now supports the standard OTel Tracing API, meaning that spans instrumented by the OTel Tracing API will be seamlessly consumed by the Embrace SDK, just as if they were created using our proprietary tools. This gives customers greater flexibility to instrument and monitor what really matters to them, without having to adopt a different tracing standard.