The OpenTelemetry Authors are the contributors behind OpenTelemetry, a comprehensive open-source framework for observability of cloud-native software. The project, a part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), provides a set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation to collect telemetry data like metrics, logs, and traces from applications. This supports improved system monitoring and performance analysis. OpenTelemetry is a collaborative effort by software vendors, cloud providers, and independent developers, aiming to standardize observability practices across diverse technology stacks.