VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog

Blog posts

• Why Carbon Needs to Become OpenTelemetry's Next First-Class Signal

  Diana Todea argues that carbon emissions data should become a standardized OpenTelemetry signal, built on the Green Software Foundation’s Software Carbon Intensity methodology, so engineers can see carbon next to the performance, reliability, and cost signals they already watch. She is clear that the work is early and that OpenTelemetry would carry the data rather than become a carbon accounting system.