OpenTelemetry Collector SIG: Project Updates - Jade G, Dmitrii A, Alex B, Evan B & Antoine T

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Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Mumbai, India (18-19 June, 2026), Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io OpenTelemetry Collector SIG: Project Updates - Jade Guiton, Datadog; Dmitrii Anoshin, Cisco; Alex Boten, Honeycomb; Evan Bradley, Dynatrace LLC; Antoine Toulme, Splunk The OpenTelemetry Collector is a critical component of the observability ecosystem, enabling users to collect, process, and export telemetry data at scale. In this maintainers track session, the Collector SIG will share insights into community organization, development priorities, and the project’s evolution over the past year. We will cover new components, signals, and distributions, our ongoing work stabilizing the Collector’s core packages to reach the coveted 1.0 mark, and internal Collector improvements. We’ll also discuss how we’re managing growth in the component ecosystem and changes to existing functionality based on community feedback.