OpenTelemetry in Production: Traces, Context, and What Actually Matters
Why OpenTelemetry Won Three years ago, the observability landscape was fragmented. Jaeger for tracing, Prometheus for metrics, Fluentd for logs, each …
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AI agents are opaque. Jaeger v2 + OTel GenAI conventions are the fix.
AI agents are distributed systems. They fan out across LLM calls, tool invocations, memory lookups, and multi-step reasoning loops — often asynchronou…
40 cents a day, three weeks of corrupted writes, zero alerts fired
The cron had been running for three weeks when they noticed it. Forty cents a day. Nothing in the cost dashboard looked wrong — spend was flat, well b…
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) — The Complete Guide: KubeCon EU 2026 Beta Launch, Zero-Code Observability, and the 1.0 GA Roadmap
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) — The Complete Guide: KubeCon EU 2026 Beta Launch, Zero-Code Observability, and the 1.0 GA Roadmap Published …
From $50K/Year of Datadog to $0/Year of Self-Hosted Observability: The Migration Every Team Is Doing in 2026
Book: Observability for LLM Applications — paperback and hardcover on Amazon · Ebook from Apr 22 Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete…
Next-Level Observability with OpenTelemetry
When something goes wrong in my applications, logging is almost always the first tool I reach for. I'll throw a few log statements at the start and en…