--- title: OpenTelemetry has graduated… Now what? | daily.dev description: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status, joining Kubernetes and Prometheus as top-tier projects. The post covers OTel's history from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/opentelemetry-has-graduated-now-what--ylyofv6h7 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 (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status, joining Kubernetes and Prometheus as top-tier projects. The post covers OTel's history from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/opentelemetry-has-graduated-now-what--ylyofv6h7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yLYoFV6h7.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? **[CNCF](https://daily.dev/sources/cncf)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status, joining Kubernetes and Prometheus as top-tier projects. The post covers OTel's history from the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus in 2019, its impressive growth as the second-highest velocity CNCF project with contributions from over 2,800 companies, and the criteria required for graduation including production adoption, security audits, API stability, and governance. For end users, graduation signals that OTel is enterprise-ready with no remaining excuses for non-adoption. Looking ahead, the project plans to expand into agentic/AI workloads with generative AI semantic conventions, browser and mobile observability, schema governance 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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