The Agentic AI-Driven Future of Telemetry
Telemetry is evolving from passive data to AI-grade fuel. Learn how agentic telemetry fuses human and machine context to power self-healing, intelligent systems.
Before You Go Agentic: Top Guardrails to Safely Deploy AI Agents in Observability
Observability platforms are evolving from passive monitors to active participants. Agentic AI promises a self-healing infrastructure that detects anomalies and fixes issues before users notice, reducing resolution time from hours to minutes. The potential is transformative, turning observability from reactive alerting into proactive, intelligent operations. But with that promise comes risk. Autonomous agents can misdiagnose […]
Grafana Labs Extends AI Capabilities of Observability Platform
Grafana Labs this week made generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent, dubbed Grafana Assistant, for its namesake dashboard in addition to previewing Grafana Assistant Investigations, an AI incident management tool that analyzes the observability stack, generates findings and hypotheses, and surfaces actionable recommendations for mitigation and remediation. Announced at its ObservabilityCON 2025 conference, Grafana […]
OpenTelemetry Extensions to Enable Observability of AI Agents
OpenTelemetry is extending support for AI agents, enabling unified observability across apps and intelligent automation of IT tasks. Discover how Cisco and Splunk are driving this next phase of telemetry innovation.
AppSignal Adds OpenTelemetry Support to Monitoring Platform
AppSignal has extended its application performance monitoring platform to provide native support for OpenTelemetry, an open source framework for instrumenting applications that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Wes Oudshoorn, chief product officer for AppSignal, said the implementation of OpenTelemetry is designed to enable DevOps teams with a […]
CNCF Brings Jaegar and OpenTelemetry Closer Together to Improve Observability
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has made available an update to its Jaeger distributed tracing project that now makes use of OpenTelemetry agent software to collect data.
Honeycomb Extends Observability Reach to Front Ends of Applications
Honeycomb has made available an extension to its observability platform that provides the ability to analyze front ends of applications.
OpenTelemetry Isn’t the Hero We Need: Here’s Why it’s Failing our Stack
OpenTelemetry promised to be a unified standard that would make it easier for everyone to collect and correlate traces, logs and metrics from distributed systems. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, here is the hard truth: OpenTelemetry is only satisfactory. When I compare it to deeper tracing technologies such as eBPF, OpenTelemetry feels bloated, inefficient, […]
The Future of Observability: How OpenTelemetry is Shaping IT Operations in the Age of AI
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is going to do for IT operations what open-source software originally did for application development.
vFunction Adds Real-Time Observability and GenAI Tool to Modernization Platform
vFunction, the AI-driven architectural observability platform today added real-time observability and GenAI assistant. vFunction today added an ability to observe IT architectures in real-time to a platform that automatically converts monolithic application code into a set of microservices. In addition, vFunction has added a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that identifies issues and surfaces recommendations […]
Embrace Adds Support for OpenTelemetry to Instrument Mobile Applications
Embrace revealed today it is adding support for open source OpenTelemetry agent software to its software development kits (SDKs) that enable observability of iOS and Android applications. Andrew Tunall, head of product for Embrace, said that as more DevOps teams standardize on OpenTelemetry to collect telemetry data from applications, there is a growing requirement for […]
How to Migrate an Observability Platform to Open Source
Migrating to an open source stack gives you control over telemetry data and reduces observability costs. Here’s how to do it with open source.
OpenTelemetry Project Maintainers Add Code Profiling Capabilities
OpenTelemetry maintainers added profiling capabilities to enable DevOps teams to identify the root cause of issues down to a specific line of code.
Measuring the Progress of the OpenTelemetry Project
OpenTelemetry has become a ‘boring’ standard for open source data and application performance measurement and observability.
The Best (and Worst) Reasons to Adopt OpenTelemetry
It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the term ‘OpenTelemetry.’ At that time, I was an active member of a working group focused on developing W3C Trace Context, a standard now extensively employed for context propagation in distributed systems. It is likely […]
How to Maximize Telemetry Data Value With Observability Pipelines
The software landscape has shifted significantly in recent years as companies digitize their operations and adopt cloud and microservices technologies. The complexity of modern software systems has led to an increasing need for real-time visibility into their performance—resulting in an explosion of telemetry data that is stretching IT budgets and outpacing engineering teams’ ability to […]
Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability
Cisco today announced a technology preview of a Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform based on instances of open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to collect metrics, event, logs and distributed traces. The Cisco Full-Stack Observability platform will be available in June 2023. The platform, announced at a Cisco […]
Open Standards Are Key For Realizing Observability
Observability has quickly become a major focus of enterprise DevOps. Yet tool sprawl and complexity can hold some observability initiatives back. The 2022 CNCF Microsurvey on observability trends found that 23% of organizations use between 10 and 15 tools for monitoring, metrics and gathering logging and tracing data. A full 50% also noted that engineers and […]
Datadog Adds Support for OpenTelemetry Protocol
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 event, Datadog announced it made support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) generally available in the agent software it provides to instrument applications. Ilan Rabinovitch, senior vice president of product and community at Datadog, said that capability eliminates the need to install a separate OpenTelemetry collector to aggregate metrics, […]
Ingest OpenTelemetry Traces and Metrics with the Datadog Agent
OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) initiative that provides open, vendor-neutral standards and tools for instrumenting services and applications. Many organizations use OpenTelemetry’s collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools to collect and export observability data from their environment to their preferred backend. As part of our ongoing commitment to OpenTelemetry, we are proud […]
Timescale Announces OpenTelemetry Tracing Support For Promscale
Following its recent $110 million Series C investment, Timescale announces general availability of OpenTelemetry tracing support in Promscale, its unified observability backend for metrics and traces powered by SQL. With today’s announcements, Timescale furthers its mission to enable developers worldwide to analyze their time-series data effectively; enabling them to know what is happening, why it […]
Datadog Announces OpenTelemetry Protocol Support
Datadog expands its existing support for OpenTelemetry by enabling native OpenTelemetry Protocol ingestion in the Datadog Agent NEW YORK, NY, May 16, 2022 – Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced today the general availability of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) support in the Datadog agent. This new capability brings the […]
Observe, Inc. Dives Deeper Into Observability
Fresh from picking up an additional $70 million in funding, Observe, Inc. announced this week it has added multiple tools, dubbed Data Universe Maps, to its observability platform to visualize all datasets and surface underlying event data. The company also added pre-built applications for Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Jenkins environments with editions for […]