Post #1431091

77% of observability experts say open source and open standards are important to their observability strategy. We're also seeing open source have an impact on how people prioritize and select new tools, while OpenTelemetry continues to become a unified standard across all telemetry signals. Taken collectively, this points to a broader change: Organizations are shifting from strategies anchored to a single vendor to strategies that prioritize open, portable standards for moving data across tools and platforms to better understand the state of their systems—and even their businesses. This blog post takes a closer look at the role of open source and open standards in observability today, based on the results from the 2026 edition of the Observability Survey, the largest community-driven survey on the state of the industry: https://grafana.com/blog/observability-survey-OSS-open-standards-2026