Issues

• Add OTEL_METRIC_EXPORT_MAX_BATCH_SIZE environment variable for Periodic exporting MetricReader

  spec:metrics
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5358 · Filter by author psx95 opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Recommend exporter time bounds across logs, metrics, and traces

  spec:miscellaneous
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5354 · Filter by author pellared opened on Oct 14, 2026

• SBOM format for OpenTelemetry (package management)

  spec:miscellaneous
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5353 · Filter by author tedsuo opened on Oct 13, 2026
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• Clarify what to do with NaN/Inf+/Inf- for explicit histograms

  spec:metricstriage:accepted:ready
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5346 · Filter by author Kielek opened on Oct 7, 2026
  7

• Provide generic opt-in mechanism for events

  spec:logstriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5345 · Filter by author DylanRussell opened on Oct 6, 2026
  11

• Define behavior for a zero metric export interval

  area:configurationarea:sdkspec:metricstriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5337 · Filter by author pellared opened on Sep 30, 2026
  4

• Define idle behavior for zero-delay batch span and log processors

  area:configurationarea:sdkspec:logsspec:tracetriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5336 · Filter by author pellared opened on Sep 30, 2026
  

• Span attributes have no duration type: can't compare tmax (OpenRTB) with span duration

  spec:tracetriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5327 · Filter by author klyubavsky opened on Sep 25, 2026
  3

• Clarify exemplar sampling for cardinality-overflow measurements

  area:sdkmaintainer-requestspec:metricstriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5318 · Filter by author cijothomas opened on Sep 18, 2026
  2

• [MeterConfigurator] Clarify No-Op Meter behavior for dynamic configuration

  spec:metricstriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5301 · Filter by author ps-mir opened on Sep 4, 2026
  2

• Allow applications to assign names to SDK components

  area:sdkmaintainer-requestspec:miscellaneoustriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5298 · Filter by author cijothomas opened on Sep 4, 2026

• Codify criteria for when an SDK and instrumentation is automatically injectable

  triage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5267 · Filter by author mmanciop opened on Aug 13, 2026

• The ComposableAlwaysRecord sampler is missing

  area:samplingsig-issuespec:trace
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5266 · Filter by author marcalff opened on Aug 13, 2026

• Pull Request Dashboard

  dashboardtriage:accepted:ready
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5264 · Filter by author opentelemetry-pr-dashboard opened on Aug 11, 2026

• Why Exporter.ForceFlush and Exporter.Shutdown MUST be safe to be called concurrently?

  area:sdkspec:logstriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5248 · Filter by author pellared opened on Aug 4, 2026
  4

• File exporter: should an existing file be appended to or truncated?

  spec:protocoltriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5243 · Filter by author robintra opened on Jul 31, 2026
  1

• Clarify Telemetry Policy update behaviour for sets of policies

  area:policiessig-issuespec:miscellaneous
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5218 · Filter by author jackshirazi opened on Jul 17, 2026
  5

• Clarify expected behavior for empty/whitespace-only span names

  spec:tracetriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5215 · Filter by author fractalwrench opened on Jul 16, 2026

• Fix issues related to OTEL_ENTITIES and maturity level

  entitiessig-issuespec:resource
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5209 · Filter by author jack-berg opened on Jul 14, 2026

• Multiple issues could be closed

  triage:accepted:ready
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5207 · Filter by author ocelotl opened on Jul 14, 2026
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• Consider bi-directional context-scoped attribute propagation

  spec:contexttriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5187 · Filter by author dyladan opened on Jul 1, 2026
  1

• Track Context-scoped attributes addition

  spec:contexttriage:accepted:ready
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5185 · Filter by author carlosalberto opened on Jun 30, 2026
  1

• BatchSpanProcessor / BatchLogRecordProcessor: add opt-in blocking mode when queue is full

  area:sdkenhancementmaintainer-requestspec:logstriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5178 · Filter by author cijothomas opened on Jun 25, 2026
  14

• Prototype context scoped attributes

  spec:contexttriage:accepted:needs-sponsor
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5170 · Filter by author jack-berg opened on Jun 22, 2026
  2

• Stabilize SpanProcessor#onEnding

  spec:tracetriage:deciding:community-feedback
  open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#5156 · Filter by author jack-berg opened on Jun 16, 2026
  6