
Security and Policy Enforcement in OpenTelemetry: What Works Today, and Where It Stops
The OpenTelemetry Collector can now enforce real rules about which monitoring data is kept, cleaned, routed, and signed, and OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) can connect existing logs to the requests behind them with no code changes. What each component enforces today, why the coming policy format fails open, where trace IDs and OBI stop, and how to protect the Collector itself.


