CI/CD Observability SIG Phase 2

November 12, 2025 · View on GitHub

Overview

The initial founding of the CI/CD Observability SIG produced multiple outcomes and improvements in the OpenTelemetry space. To capture a few, the group:

Created multiple foundational sets of attributes related to CI/CD in the registry across multiple versions of Semantic Conventions.
Added span attribute conventions for CI/CD pipelines.
Added metric attribute conventions around CI/CD systems.
Created the OTEP for Environment Variable Context Propagation and drove it through approval.
Based on the OTEP, updated the specification to include support with supplementary guidance.
Wrote a Python draft prototype to implement the specification.
Updated and supported the GitHub and GitLab OpenTelemetry Collector components.
Delivered multiple talks around the CI/CD SIG.
Worked with Jenkins, Team City, and OpenTofu around adoption within those technologies.

There is still a lot of things to accomplish, and as such, we propose implementing phase two of the CI/CD Observability SIG.

Phase Two Goals

This phase targets three core areas for immediate impact:

SDK Environment Variable Context Propagation: Implement the spec across multiple OpenTelemetry languages for first class, native support.
- Python
- Go
- C#
- Javascript
Enhanced Signal Attribute Conventions: Establish additional attribute conventions for CI/CD-specific trace, metrics, and logs telemetry for the following namespaces and domains:
- build
- deployment
- issues
- incidents
- test
- pipeline
Beta Stabilization: Move core CI/CD semantic conventions and collector implementations from experimental to beta status
Increase Adoption: Work towards getting one or more new technologies adoption of the OpenTelemetry conventions.
Stretch Goal: Figure out how to enable better support for long running traces via Issue #1648.