OpenTelemetry traces for Bitbucket Pipelines via webhooks
Mar 5, 2026Edmund Munday

Summary
This post introduces the emission of OpenTelemetry (OTel) traces for Bitbucket Pipelines via webhook events. It details the span model (pipeline run, step, command, container attributes) and how to consume these traces in an observability stack. The contribution enables users to gain deeper insights into pipeline performance, reliability, and resource utilization by correlating pipeline execution with other system traces.