--- title: OpenTelemetry Has Graduated… Now what? | daily.dev description: OpenTelemetry has officially achieved CNCF graduated status, joining Kubernetes and Prometheus as top-tier cloud native projects. The post covers OTel's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/opentelemetry-has-graduated-now-what--erprrqgbz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenTelemetry Has Graduated… Now what? | daily.dev og:description: OpenTelemetry has officially achieved CNCF graduated status, joining Kubernetes and Prometheus as top-tier cloud native projects. The post covers OTel's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/opentelemetry-has-graduated-now-what--erprrqgbz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eRPRRqGBZ.png og:image:alt: OpenTelemetry Has Graduated… Now what? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenTelemetry Has Graduated… Now what? **[OpenTelemetry](https://daily.dev/sources/opentelemetry)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenTelemetry has officially achieved CNCF graduated status, joining Kubernetes and Prometheus as top-tier cloud native projects. The post covers OTel's history from the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus in 2019, its growth to become the second-highest velocity CNCF project with contributions from over 2,800 companies, and what graduation criteria were met. For end users, graduation signals production-readiness and enterprise-grade quality. Looking ahead, the project plans to expand into agentic AI observability, browser and mobile telemetry, schema governance tooling via Weaver, and zero-code instrumentation through the OpenTelemetry Injector. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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