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Uptrace MCP Server: Auto-Generate Dashboards with AI in Minutes

Tired of clicking through menus to build observability dashboards? In this video I walk through how to configure the Uptrace MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and connect it to an AI assistant so your dashboards get created automatically from natural-language prompts. You'll learn how to: By the end you'll have a working setup where describing what you want to monitor is enough to get a real, shareable dashboard in Uptrace.

OpenTelemetry Collector + Uptrace: From Zero to Your First Traces

Learn how to set up the OpenTelemetry Collector and connect it to Uptrace for distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. This step-by-step guide walks you through installation, configuration, and sending your first telemetry data — perfect for beginners and anyone looking to level up their observability stack.

LLM Cost Monitoring with OpenTelemetry

Teams running LLM applications in production face a cost problem that traditional APM tools were never designed to solve. CPU and memory costs are relatively predictable — a web service processing 1,000 requests per second costs roughly the same week over week. LLM API costs are not. A single user session can cost $0.01 or $5 depending on prompt length, model choice, conversation history, and how many retries happen inside your chain.