OpenTelemetry has announced its first beta release, which includes a specification for consistency across all projects and SDKs in Go, Java, Javascript, Python, and Erlang. This open standard aims to simplify observability by combining OpenTracing and OpenCensus into one project, providing a vendor-neutral path to capturing and sending telemetry. New Relic is supporting this initiative with instrumentation tools that offer customers the freedom to instrument their code once and reconfigure exporters as needed. The company provides exporters for OpenTelemetry's Go and Java SDKs, with plans to add more in the future, and invites customers to help steer the direction of OpenTelemetry support in New Relic One. With its focus on empowering developers to measure software, OpenTelemetry aims to improve the quality of software by providing a complete telemetry system through clean and thoughtful APIs and libraries.