Software Carbon Intensity proposed as OpenTelemetry signal at OTel Summit

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:05:37 +0000

Platform/SRE — Learn: A keynote proposal to add SCI as an OTel signal is worth tracking for teams that already instrument with OpenTelemetry, but nothing is GA or standardized yet — no changes to observability pipelines today.
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Leader — Learn: Carbon intensity as a cloud-native observability signal could eventually shape sustainability reporting standards and golden-path tooling decisions, but the concept is still in proposal stage with no adoption decision pending.

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