Filtering and reducing AI agent telemetry with the OpenTelemetry Collector
Turn on an AI coding agent’s telemetry and it throws a wall of text at you. It’s expensive to store and what’s worse, you can’t make sense of it. It’s all OpenTelemetry native, though. So you…
Carbon as a first-class signal: Bringing software carbon intensity to OpenTelemetry
At Observability Summit Europe 2026 in Prague, I presented a keynote titled Carbon as a First-Class Signal: Designing a Standard for OpenTelemetry. The talk explored how Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) could become part of cloud-native observability…
Every SaaS company has the same uncomfortable question after a major incident: who noticed first, the monitoring or the customers? For a long time our honest answer was “it depends”. This post describes how a small…
OpenTelemetry everywhere: Migrating a metrics platform at scale
Why we did this at all For most of the last decade our metrics pipeline ran on gostatsd, the open-source StatsD implementation we maintain. It primarily did two jobs: as sidecar on every host and the…
OpenTelemetry has graduated… now what?
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a long…
How to turn slow queries into actionable reliability metrics with OpenTelemetry
Slow SQL queries degrade user experience, cause cascading failures, and turn simple operations into production incidents. The traditional fix? Collect more telemetry. But more telemetry means more things to look at, not necessarily more understanding. Instead…
OpenTelemetry has graduated… Now what?
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a long journey, and we’re very…
Sustaining OpenTelemetry: What a 10-week contributor cohort actually looks like
A follow-up to our earlier post: “Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from Dependency Management to Stewardship” *** In April 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, and Bloomberg’s Open Source Program Office came together…
Operating OpenTelemetry at scale with OpAMP
As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises: how to remotely manage, configure, and update this agent fleet in a consistent and secure…