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Stopping Runaway AI Loops: Implementing Enterprise FinOps and Observability with PolicyAware
Autonomous agents don't just fail loudly—they fail expensively. A single misconfigured retry loop between an agent and an LLM can generate thousands o…
Frontend Observability for Startups: Choosing Tools That Actually Save You Time
How modern frontend teams can use observability tools like Sentry, SonarQube, and LogRocket to debug faster, write cleaner code, and stop bugs before …
We made SigNoz's LLM observability actually reachable…
-and added the one signal it was missing Track 01 — AI & Agent Observability. A hackathon project built from scratch, July 20–26, 2026. There's a …
We Asked SigNoz How to Flag a Hallucinating Agent. They Said "We Haven't Figured That Out." So We Did.
By Team ThunderBoltz · Agents of SigNoz Hackathon · Track 1: AI & Agent Observability In the kickoff Q&A for the Agents of SigNoz hackathon, w…
We instrumented an AI agent swarm with SigNoz, and its own telemetry told us we were wrong about almost everything
Built for the WeMakeDevs Agents of SigNoz hackathon, July 2026. Mission Control. The graph is the swarm, the river underneath it is the live span stre…
trelix v2.7 to v2.9: The Release Where the Pipeline Itself Became the Product
On 2026-07-09 I shipped trelix v2.7.0. The architecture felt done — seven retrieval legs, a knowledge graph, an agentic loop. Then I opened the GitHub…
Mackerel's Log Feature Just Opened in Beta — Here's What It Takes to Wire It Into an OTLP Pipeline
TL;DR Mackerel — Hatena's Japan-origin observability platform — opened its log feature as public beta on July 16, 2026 . In response, this repository …
You don't need an observability stack yet
The question gets asked on r/node every few months, on r/selfhosted every few weeks, and on Hacker News whenever a Datadog invoice goes viral. Some va…
Instrumenting an AI-Powered GitHub Analyzer with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz
This article is my submission for the Agents of SigNoz Hackathon : Blog Track, where participants instrument real applications with OpenTelemetry and …
Beyond Logs: Why Observability's Next Era Is Comprehension
Beyond Logs: Why Observability's Next Era Is Comprehension Ask most engineers to debug a production incident and watch what they reach for first. Nine…
Рентген для нейросетей, или как я перестал понимать собственный ИИ и написал свой APM
Бывало у вас такое: месяцами пилишь архитектуру, фичи летят одна за другой, тесты зелёные. Всё работает. А потом в какой-то момент ловишь себя на мысл…
Prometheus Agent Mode vs Grafana Alloy: Choosing the Right Push Agent in 2026
TL;DR: If you only collect metrics, Prometheus Agent mode is lightweight, familiar, and difficult to beat. If you collect metrics, logs, or traces tog…
Observability as Code: Managing Dashboards and Alerts with Terraform
The Problem with Click-Ops Dashboards Your team has 200 dashboards. You don't know who owns them. Half are broken. The rest show yesterday's reality. …
The expensive half of your incident bot is the half you didn't build
An incident bot caught the CrashLoopBackOff at 3:12 a.m., proposed delete_pod, and the on-call approved it half asleep at 3:14. The new pod went Runni…
When an LLM answer is wrong, the trace is where you look. Some tools make that easy.
A user reports a hallucinated answer in prod. To fix it you need the full trace of that one request, and how fast you can pull it depends entirely on …
Mastering Production Reliability: Practical Observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and GitHub Actions
In modern software engineering, traditional monitoring — simply knowing if a system is up or down — is no longer enough. High-velocity engineering tea…
We deployed a LangChain agent for a client and it silently failed for two weeks. Here's what we built to make sure it never happens again.
Six weeks ago, a LangChain agent we'd deployed for a B2B client started failing on roughly 30% of its sessions. No exceptions. No 500s. Nothing in the…
Laravel Nightwatch: First-Party APM and What It Actually Replaces
Book: Decoupled PHP — Clean and Hexagonal Architecture for Applications That Outlive the Framework Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Comple…
Monitoring Costs Are Out of Control — Here's How to Fix It
The $50K/Month Monitoring Bill I audited our monitoring stack last quarter. The total cost across all tools: $52,000/month. For a company with 200 eng…
Your Agent's Retries Are Double-Charging Your Users (and Every Eval Is Green)
Your agent calls a tool. The tool times out at the network layer but actually succeeds on the server. Your harness sees no response, so it retries. No…
Can you build observability ingestion on S3 alone — no Kafka, no disks, no coordination layer?
TL;DR — A Kafka + Flink + OTel ingestion pipeline cost us ~$700–800/month at 10 MB/s. We rebuilt it as a single binary where the data, the write-ahead…
AI‑агенты в проде: 6 архитектурных ошибок, из‑за которых они не доживают до запуска
На демо AI‑агент может выглядеть надёжным: вызвать инструменты, собрать ответ и отчитаться об успехе. Но в продакшене быстро …
Distributed Tracing: The Missing Piece of Your Observability Stack
When Logs and Metrics Aren't Enough You have great dashboards. Your log aggregation is solid. But when a user reports "the checkout page is slow," you…
Your Webhook Tool Can't Tell You What Actually Happened
You get a 200. Or you get a timeout. That's it. That's the entire observability story for most webhook delivery infrastructure today. A status code an…
MCP в мониторинге: когда «просто спросить» работает, а когда нет
Вступление: Почему мы заговорили об MCP? Наверняка, вы, как читатели Хабра в 2025-2026 годах заметили всплеск интереса к аббревиатуре MCP . Мног…
Monitoring LLM costs in production: tokens, tenants, and alerts
Originally published on 475 Cumulus A practical guide to LLM cost observability: structured logging, Langfuse dashboards, OpenTelemetry metrics, per-t…
Good Architecture Includes Observability
Good architecture is not only about how a system is built. It is also about how well the team can understand that system once it is running. That is w…
Correlation IDs: Trace a Single Request Across Every Service in Your API
The Problem: One Request, Five Services, Zero Clues A user reports that "saving their profile failed." You open your logs and find a 500 . But that si…
Why ClickHouse Merges and Mutations Are Difficult to Track in Production
One of the reasons ClickHouse delivers exceptional analytical performance is its ability to optimize data in the background. While users focus on writ…