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What Session-Level Tracing Taught Me About LLM Applications

I work on observability tooling for LLM-backed applications and the thing that surprised me most wasn’t a technical problem; it was how confidently wrong these systems can be while every dashboard stays green. Here’s a scenario th…

Oct 26, 20263 min

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Oct09

Blogs

OllyGarden Extends AI Agent to Identify Instrumentation Gaps

OllyGarden expands its Rose AI agent with Minimum Viable Instrumentation to identify observability gaps, optimize OpenTelemetry data and reduce telemetry costs.

3 min

Sep24

Blogs

The Observability Tax: When Monitoring Costs Exceed Downtime Costs

Observability costs can spiral when teams collect more telemetry than they actually use. A more mature approach prioritizes the data that directly improves incident detection, diag…

3 min

Sep09

Blogs

GitHub Puts Guardrails on Copilot’s Sandbox Inside JetBrains IDEs

JetBrains IDEs are where a lot of enterprise backend work happens — Java, Kotlin, Spring, big monorepos with a lot to break. So when an AI coding agent starts running shell command…

3 min

Sep03

Blogs

Observability 2.0: Why DevOps Teams Are Moving From Monitoring to Intelligent System Understanding

For a long time, monitoring just meant staring at dashboards and waiting for something to flash red. Engineers tracked things like CPU usage, memory, response times, error rates, a…

3 min

Aug21

Dash0 Acquires Polar Signals for Continuous Profiling and GPU Visibility

Observability startup Dash0 announced this week that it acquired Berlin-based continuous profiling specialist Polar Signals. The deal adds continuous profiling to SignalStore, Dash…

3 min

Aug19

What It Really Takes to Run OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry solved a real problem. Before it, every APM vendor had you install a proprietary agent, which meant switching vendors meant re-instrumenting everything. OTel gave eng…

3 min

Jul31

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Why Log Monitoring Is the Missing Link in Most Incident Response Workflows

Modern engineering teams have invested heavily in observability. Dashboards are populated, alerts are configured, on-call rotations are set. Yet when production incidents occur, th…

3 min

Jun11

Blogs

Why Your Observability Stack Is Costing You More Than Your Cloud Bill

There’s a pattern playing out across engineering teams right now that nobody talks about openly: the tool meant to reduce operational complexity has quietly become one of the bigge…

3 min

Jun05

The Death of the Four Golden Signals: Designing Telemetry for Non-Deterministic Infrastructure

In complex software systems, our traditional definition of operational health has always been comfortably binary. For over a decade, site reliability engineering (SRE) teams have r…

3 min

May20

Video Interviews

OpenTelemetry Graduation Sets Stage for AI Observability

OpenTelemetry just hit graduated status at the CNCF, and the timing matters more than the milestone itself. After years of consolidating what used to be OpenTracing and OpenCensus,…

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Apr21

Blogs

Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into AI

Grafana Labs debuts Grafana 13, a specialized AI application observability platform, and an MCP-powered AI agent at GrafanaCON 2026 to streamline telemetry across complex cloud-nat…

3 min

Apr10

Blogs

Dynatrace to Acquire Bindplane to Process and Route Telemetry Data

Dynatrace this week revealed it has agreed to acquire Bindplane, a provider of a platform for pre-processing and routing telemetry data. Bob Wambach, vice president of market and c…

3 min

Apr07

Apica Extends Scope and Reach of Platform for Managing Telemetry Data

Apica today updated its Ascent platform to add support for synthetic data that is increasingly being used by artificial intelligence (AI) agents to observe application environments…

3 min

Mar16

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The Green Side of Observability: Why Less Data Can Mean More Insight

Observability can generate massive data volumes. Learn how sustainable observability reduces telemetry waste, lowers costs and improves insight.

3 min

Mar13

Blogs

How eBPF and OpenTelemetry Have Simplified the Observability Function

Overview arguing that OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) — combined with OpenTelemetry Injector — removes barriers to full observability by enabling zero-code, kernel-level t…

3 min

Mar04

Blogs

Unlocking Observability by Design With Inferred Schemas

Observability systems generate massive telemetry, but schema drift creates friction. Learn how inferred schemas and OpenTelemetry Weaver restore structure.

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Feb25

Video Interviews

OpenTelemetry Is Paving the Way for the Rise of the Observability Warehouse

Eric Tschetter, chief architect at Imply and creator of Apache Druid, explains how the rapid adoption of open source OpenTelemetry for instrumenting applications is reshaping moder…

3 min

Feb06

Blogs

The 10-Layer Monitoring Framework That Saved Our Clients From 3 a.m. Pages

A practical 10-layer monitoring framework for Kubernetes and VM environments that prioritizes what to watch—system, application, HTTP/RUM, databases, caches, queues, tracing, SSL,…

3 min

Dec17

Blogs

Proactive Problem-Solving: Observability Trends Every Leader Should Know

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, reactive IT management is no longer sustainable. Business leaders are increasingly recognizing that proactive observability has becom…

3 min

Nov20

Blogs

Splunk Donates OpenTelemetry Injector Library to Open Source Instrumentation Framework

Splunk, an arm of Cisco, has donated an OpenTelemetry Injector library it developed for streamlining instrumentation of applications that have not been containerized, to the open s…

3 min

Nov18

Blogs

MyDecisive Open Sources Platform for Processing OpenTelemetry Data

By open-sourcing its Smart Telemetry Hub, MyDecisive pushes for an evolution of OpenTelemetry—adding local, memory-based filtering to shrink telemetry volume and help DevOps teams…

3 min

Nov04

Observe Adds Two AI Agents to Improve Observability

Observe Inc. introduces the AI SRE Agent and o11y.ai Agent to its observability platform—empowering DevOps teams to automate incident triage, generate OpenTelemetry code, and query…

3 min

Oct24

Blogs

BMC Brings OpenTelemetry to Mainframes Running z/OS

BMC Software has added an ability to collect telemetry data from mainframes using open source OpenTelemetry software that can then be more easily shared with multiple observability…

3 min