OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups

This page contains detailed information for all OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

Specification SIGs

Specification: General + OTel Maintainers Sync

• Meeting time: Tuesday at 08:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-spec-general
• Slack channel: #otel-specification
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto, open-telemetry/build-tools
• Technical Committee sponsors: Technical Committee
• Governance Committee liaison: tbd

Specification: Sampling

• Meeting time: Thursday at 08:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-spec-sampling
• Slack channel: #otel-sampling
• Roadmap projects: Specification: Sampling roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Joshua MacDonald (guiding)
• Governance Committee liaison: Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Specification: Logs

• Meeting time: Tuesday at 10:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-spec-logs
• Slack channel: #otel-spec-logs
• Technical Committee sponsors: Liudmila Molkova (guiding)
• Spec sponsors: Ted Young
• Governance Committee liaison: Trask Stalnaker

Semantic Conventions: General

• Meeting time: Monday at 08:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-semconv
• Slack channel: #otel-semantic-conventions
• Repositories: open-telemetry/semantic-conventions, open-telemetry/semantic-conventions-conformance
• Technical Committee sponsors: Armin Ruech (leading), Liudmila Molkova (leading)
• Governance Committee liaison: Trask Stalnaker

Semantic Conventions: System Metrics

• Meeting time: Thursday at 07:30 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-semconv
• Slack channel: #otel-system-metrics
• Roadmap projects: Semantic Conventions: System Metrics roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Pablo Baeyens

Semantic Conventions: K8s

• Meeting time: Every other Tuesday at 07:30 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-semconv
• Slack channel: #otel-k8s-semconv-sig
• Roadmap projects: Semantic Conventions: K8s roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: David Ashpole (leading)
• Governance Committee liaison: Alolita Sharma

Semantic Conventions and Instrumentation: GenAI

• Meeting time: General GenAI topics: every Tuesday 9:00 PT, every other Tuesday 9:00 UTC+8; agent-related topics: every Monday 9:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-semconv
• Slack channel: #otel-genai-instrumentation
• Roadmap projects: Semantic Conventions and Instrumentation: GenAI roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Liudmila Molkova (leading)
• Spec sponsors: Ted Young
• Governance Committee liaison: Ted Young

Semantic Conventions: CI/CD

• Meeting time: Every Tuesday at 07:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-semconv
• Slack channel: #otel-cicd
• Roadmap projects: Semantic Conventions: CI/CD roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Carlos Alberto Cortez (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Marylia Gutierrez

Semantic Conventions: RPC

• Meeting time: Every other Thursday at 07:30 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-semconv
• Slack channel: #otel-semconv-rpc-stability
• Roadmap projects: Semantic Conventions: RPC roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Liudmila Molkova (guiding)
• Governance Committee liaison: Trask Stalnaker

Semantic Conventions: Service and Deployment

• Meeting time: Alternating between Thursday at 08:00 PT and Thursday at 05:30 UTC
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-semconv
• Slack channel: #otel-service-and-deployment-semconv-sig
• Roadmap projects: Semantic Conventions: Service and Deployment roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd (guiding)
• Governance Committee liaison: Trask Stalnaker

Specification: Entities

• Meeting time: Every Monday at 09:30 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-entities
• Slack channel: #otel-entities
• Roadmap projects: Specification: Entities roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Tigran Najaryan (guiding)
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

OpAMP

• Meeting time: Every other Tuesday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-opamp
• Slack channel: #otel-opamp
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opamp-go, open-telemetry/opamp-spec
• Technical Committee sponsors: Tigran Najaryan (leading)
• Governance Committee liaison: Ted Young

Prometheus Interoperability

• Meeting time: Every other Friday at 08:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-prometheus
• Slack channel: #otel-prometheus
• Technical Committee sponsors: David Ashpole (leading)
• Governance Committee liaison: Pablo Baeyens

Functions as a Service (FAAS)

• Meeting time: Every other Thursday at 8:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-faas
• Slack channel: #otel-faas
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-lambda
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Governance Committee liaison: Austin Parker

Profiling

• Meeting time: Every other Thursday at 08:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-profiling
• Slack channel: #otel-profiles
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-profiler
• Technical Committee sponsors: Tigran Najaryan (guiding)
• Governance Committee liaison: Morgan McLean

OpenTelemetry on Mainframes

• Meeting time: Wednesday at 10:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-mainframe
• Slack channel: #otel-mainframes
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Spec sponsors: Daniel Dyla
• Governance Committee liaison: Morgan McLean

Client Instrumentation

• Meeting time: Every other Tuesday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-client-side
• Slack channel: #otel-client-side-telemetry
• Technical Committee sponsors: Carlos Alberto Cortez (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Ted Young

Implementation SIGs

Android: SDK + Automatic Instrumentation

• Meeting time: Thursday at 08:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-android
• Slack channel: #otel-android
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android
• Technical Committee sponsors: Jack Berg (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Ted Young

Arrow

• Meeting time: Alternating between Tuesday at 16:00 PT and Thursday at 8:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-arrow
• Slack channel: #otel-arrow
• Repositories: open-telemetry/otel-arrow
• Roadmap projects: Arrow roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Joshua MacDonald (leading)
• Governance Committee liaison: Trask Stalnaker

Browser

• Meeting time: Thursday at 8:30 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-browser
• Slack channel: #otel-browser
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-browser
• Roadmap projects: Browser roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Carlos Alberto Cortez (escalating)
• Spec sponsors: Daniel Dyla, Ted Young
• Governance Committee liaison: Ted Young

Collector

• Meeting time: Alternating between Tuesday at 17:00 PT, Wednesday at 09:00 PT, and Wednesday at 05:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-collector
• Slack channel: #otel-collector
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-build-tools, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-vanityurls, open-telemetry/govanityurls
• Roadmap projects: Collector roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Joshua MacDonald (guiding)
• Governance Committee liaison: Pablo Baeyens

C++: SDK

• Meeting time: Alternating between Monday at 13:00 PT and Wednesday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-cpp
• Slack channel: #otel-cpp
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp-contrib, open-telemetry/cpp-build-tools
• Technical Committee sponsors: Reiley Yang (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

.NET: Automatic Instrumentation

• Meeting time: Wednesday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-dotnet
• Slack channel: #otel-dotnet-auto-instr
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-instrumentation
• Technical Committee sponsors: Reiley Yang (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Morgan McLean

.NET: SDK

• Meeting time: Tuesday at 11:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-dotnet
• Slack channel: #otel-dotnet
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib
• Technical Committee sponsors: Reiley Yang (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Morgan McLean

Erlang/Elixir: SDK

• Meeting time: Every other Thursday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-erlang
• Slack channel: #otel-erlang-elixir
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-erlang, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-erlang-contrib
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Austin Parker

GoLang: SDK

• Meeting time: Thursday alternating between 09:00 PT and 10:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-go
• Slack channel: #otel-go
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-build-tools, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-vanityurls, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto-go, open-telemetry/govanityurls
• Technical Committee sponsors: David Ashpole (leading)
• Governance Committee liaison: Marylia Gutierrez

GoLang: Automatic Instrumentation

• Meeting time: Every other Tuesday at 09:30 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-go
• Slack channel: #otel-go-instrumentation
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-instrumentation
• Technical Committee sponsors: David Ashpole (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Juraci Paixão Kröhling

GoLang: Compile-Time Instrumentation

• Meeting time: Every Thursday at 08:00 UTC
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-go
• Slack channel: #otel-go-compile-instrumentation
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-compile-instrumentation
• Roadmap projects: GoLang: Compile-Time Instrumentation roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: David Ashpole (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Injector

• Meeting time: Thursday at 08:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-injector
• Slack channel: #otel-injector
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-injector
• Technical Committee sponsors: Jack Berg (guiding)
• Governance Committee liaison: Morgan McLean

Java: SDK + Instrumentation

• Meeting time: Thursday at 09:00 PT, and every other Thursday at 09:00 UTC+8
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-java
• Slack channel: #otel-java
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-contrib, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-examples, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto-java, open-telemetry/semantic-conventions-java
• Technical Committee sponsors: Jack Berg (leading)
• Governance Committee liaison: Trask Stalnaker

JavaScript: SDK

• Meeting time: Wednesday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-js
• Slack channel: #otel-js
• GitHub Discussions: GitHub Discussions
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js-contrib
• Technical Committee sponsors: Carlos Alberto Cortez (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Marylia Gutierrez

Kotlin: SDK

• Meeting time: Monday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-kotlin
• Slack channel: #otel-kotlin
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-kotlin
• Technical Committee sponsors: Carlos Alberto Cortez (guiding)
• Governance Committee liaison: Alolita Sharma

Packaging

• Meeting time: Wednesday at 10:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-packaging
• Slack channel: #otel-packaging
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-packaging
• Technical Committee sponsors: Tigran Najaryan (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Ted Young

PHP: SDK

• Meeting time: Wednesday at 08:00 EST
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-php
• Slack channel: #otel-php
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php-contrib, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php-instrumentation
• Technical Committee sponsors: Jack Berg (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

Python: SDK

• Meeting time: Thursday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-python
• Slack channel: #otel-python
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib
• Technical Committee sponsors: Reiley Yang (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Marylia Gutierrez

Ruby: SDK

• Meeting time: Tuesday at 10:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-ruby
• Slack channel: #otel-ruby
• GitHub Discussions: GitHub Discussions
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby-contrib
• Technical Committee sponsors: Armin Ruech (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Ted Young

Rust: SDK

• Meeting time: Alternating between Tuesday at 09:00 AM PT and Wednesday at 8:00 AM PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-rust
• Slack channel: #otel-rust
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust-contrib
• Technical Committee sponsors: Reiley Yang (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Ted Young

Swift: SDK

• Meeting time: Thursday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-swift
• Slack channel: #otel-swift
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-swift
• Technical Committee sponsors: Reiley Yang (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Alolita Sharma

Network

• Meeting time: Monday at 07:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-network
• Slack channel: #otel-network
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-network
• Roadmap projects: Network roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Liudmila Molkova (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Ted Young

eBPF Instrumentation

• Meeting time: Wednesday at 08:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-ebpf-instrumentation
• Slack channel: #otel-ebpf-instrumentation
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation
• Technical Committee sponsors: David Ashpole (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

Kubernetes Operator

• Meeting time: Thursday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-k8s-operator
• Slack channel: #otel-operator
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator
• Technical Committee sponsors: David Ashpole (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Kubernetes Helm Charts

• Meeting time: Meets during OpenTelemetry Operator and OpenTelemetry Collector
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-k8s-operator
• Slack channel: #otel-helm
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-helm-charts
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Governance Committee liaison: Pablo Baeyens

Community Demo Application

• Meeting time: Wednesday at 08:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-demo-app
• Slack channel: #otel-community-demo
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo
• Technical Committee sponsors: Reiley Yang (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Marylia Gutierrez

Semantic Conventions: Tooling

• Meeting time: Wednesday at 07:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-semconv
• Slack channel: #otel-weaver
• Repositories: open-telemetry/weaver
• Technical Committee sponsors: Liudmila Molkova (leading)
• Governance Committee liaison: Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Cross-Cutting SIGs

Communications (Website, Documentation, etc.)

• Meeting time: Every other Tuesday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-comms
• Slack channel: #otel-comms
• Repositories: open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io
• Roadmap projects: [Communications (Website, Documentation, etc.) roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/projects/129)
• Technical Committee sponsors: Jack Berg (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

End-User SIG

• Meeting time: Alternating between Monday at 09:00 PT (Blueprints) and Thursday at 10:00 PT (General)
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-sig-end-user
• Slack channel: #otel-sig-end-user
• Repositories: open-telemetry/sig-end-user
• Roadmap projects: End-User SIG roadmap
• Technical Committee sponsors: Jack Berg (escalating)
• Governance Committee liaison: Marylia Gutierrez

Security

• Meeting time: Every other Monday at 09:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-sig-security
• Slack channel: #otel-sig-security
• Repositories: open-telemetry/sig-security
• Technical Committee sponsors: Reiley Yang (leading)
• Governance Committee liaison: Trask Stalnaker

Contributor Experience

• Meeting time: Every other Monday at 10:00 PT
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-contributor-experience
• Slack channel: #otel-contributor-experience
• Repositories: open-telemetry/sig-contributor-experience
• Technical Committee sponsors: Liudmila Molkova (escalating)
• Spec sponsors: Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Severin Neumann
• Governance Committee liaison: Marylia Gutierrez

Developer Experience

• Meeting time: Wednesday 11:00 PT and 17:00 UTC+8
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-developer-experience
• Slack channel: #otel-devex
• Repositories: open-telemetry/sig-developer-experience
• Technical Committee sponsors: Liudmila Molkova (escalating)
• Spec sponsors: Ted Young
• Governance Committee liaison: Austin Parker

Localization Teams (part of SIG Communications)

Bengali (bn)

• Slack channel: #otel-localization-bn
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Spec sponsors: Severin Neumann
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

Chinese (zh-CN)

• Slack channel: #otel-localization-zhcn
• Technical Committee sponsors: Reiley Yang
• Spec sponsors: Severin Neumann
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

French (fr-FR)

• Slack channel: #otel-localization-fr
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Spec sponsors: Severin Neumann
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

Japanese (ja-JA)

• Meeting time: Every third Wednesday at 01:00pm JST
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-localization-ja
• Slack channel: #otel-localization-ja
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Spec sponsors: Severin Neumann
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

Polish (pl-PL)

• Slack channel: #otel-localization-pl
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Spec sponsors: Severin Neumann
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

Portuguese (pt-BR)

• Slack channel: #otel-localization-ptbr
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Spec sponsors: Juraci Paixão Kröhling
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

Romanian (ro-RO)

• Meeting time: Monthly on a different day, at a different time (see Slack channel)
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Slack channel: #otel-localization-ro
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Spec sponsors: Severin Neumann
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

Spanish (es-ES)

• Meeting time: Every second Friday at 8:30am UTC-3
• Meeting notes: Google Doc
• Meeting invites group: calendar-localization-es
• Slack channel: #otel-localization-es
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Spec sponsors: Severin Neumann
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann

Ukrainian (uk-UA)

• Slack channel: #otel-localization-uk
• Technical Committee sponsors: tbd
• Spec sponsors: Severin Neumann
• Governance Committee liaison: Severin Neumann