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…
Network boundary for AI agents using NGINX and OpenTelemetry
I recently had an interesting conversation at a KCD about OpenClaw with one of the attendees, and they remarked that they wouldn’t put an agent in their network, because “we don’t know what that thing really…
InfoQ: “OpenTelemetry Graduates to CNCF’s Highest Maturity Level”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced the graduation of OpenTelemetry, elevating the project to the foundation’s highest level of maturity and formally recognizing it as production-ready for enterprise use.