There are two primary goals of the End-User SIG:
- Foster a sense of vendor-agnostic community for OpenTelemetry end-users to promote learning and adoption. We currently accomplish this through: CNCF Slack channel, panels and blog posts.
- Facilitate the collection and communication of end-user feedback to OpenTelemetry project special interest groups to influence SIG priorities. We currently accomplish this through: creation and maintenance of end-user research assets such as OpenTelemetry Community surveys & organization and facilitation of structured end-user interview sessions.
Our group discourages promotion of vendor-specific solutions and desires to keep the focus on OpenTelemetry core technologies, adoption and usage.
There are many ways to get involved in our work! We (End-User SIG) meet every two weeks on Thursdays at 10:00 PT/13:00 ET/19:00 CET. Check out the OpenTelemetry Community calendar for the Zoom link and any updates to this schedule.
Meeting notes are available as a public Google doc. If you have trouble accessing the doc, please get in touch on Slack.
As an end user, you may want to:
- Reach out to us to tell us your OpenTelemetry adoption story. You can reach out in #otel-sig-end-user to learn more.
- Take one of our surveys (for current surveys, check out the OpenTelemetry website or socials)
- Participate in end-user discussions asynchronously on Slack or synchronously via Google Meet.
- Follow this page and #opentelemetry to learn about new engagement opportunities as we grow our efforts.
- Encourage other end-users to join and get involved!
As someone interested in user research and/or improving the user experience of OpenTelemetry, you may want to:
- Attend the SIG meetings and contribute to our efforts.
- Become an end-user interview facilitator or helper.
- Follow our work coordination efforts in #otel-sig-end-user.
- Amplify the existence of our surveys and end-user engagement opportunities to interested people!
As a contributor to other OTel SIGs that wants to run their own survey:
- Create a new issue with the
Surveytemplate. - Review our survey guidance and past surveys
- Reach out in #otel-sig-end-user with any questions
We coordinate our SIG efforts in #otel-sig-end-user on CNCF Slack.
If you are new, you can create a CNCF Slack account here.