Ted Young
Co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project and an observability expert focused on tracing, metrics, and logging integration; known for work on instrumentation, semantic conventions, and improving telemetry installation and context propagation.
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Feb 13, 2026 • 57min
The Evolution of OpenTelemetry with Co-founder Ted Young
Ted Young, co-founder of OpenTelemetry and observability expert, shares the project's origins and why standardizing telemetry matters. He discusses tracing versus logs, context propagation challenges, semantic conventions for structured telemetry, and the push toward zero-touch installation and auto-instrumentation. Short, technical, and forward-looking conversation about making telemetry easier to adopt.
