As we kick off 2025, the OpenTelemetry Go team has come together to set a roadmap for the year. Our focus is on driving the OpenTelemetry Go project forward while strengthening its integration with the broader OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
Goals Here’s an overview of our goals, their expected timelines, and the key contributors supporting each initiative.
New Semantic Conventions (Weaver) Priority: First quarter goal Tracking Issue: #5668 Sponsor: @MrAlias Semantic conventions are foundational to OpenTelemetry and the cornerstone of data quality across the ecosystem. The OpenTelemetry community has recently updated the tooling used to generate these conventions into usable code by introducing the weaver project. We plan to integrate this new tooling into the OpenTelemetry Go project and provide updates to the latest versions of semantic conventions.

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The OpenTelemetry Go team has outlined their goals for 2025, focusing on integrating new semantic conventions, enhancing SDK self-observability, stabilizing Go runtime metrics, and finalizing the Logs API and `otelhttp` instrumentation. These initiatives aim to improve data quality, observability, and developer experience within the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.

OpenTelemetry Go 2025 Goals