OpenTelemetry's Profiling SIG has announced the public Alpha release of the Profiles signal, establishing a vendor-neutral industry standard for continuous production profiling alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Key highlights include a unified OTLP Profiles data format (compatible with pprof, 40% smaller wire size via string dictionaries), an eBPF-based profiling agent (donated by Elastic) now shipping as an official OTel Collector distribution with support for Go, Node.js ARM64, .NET 9/10, BEAM (Erlang/Elixir), and Ruby. The Collector gains pprof receiver, Kubernetes metadata enrichment, and OTTL transformation support for profiles. Cross-signal correlation with traces via trace_id/span_id is supported. A conformance checker tool and pprof translator are also released. The signal is not yet recommended for critical production workloads, and backends supporting OTLP Profiles are still emerging.
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