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OpenTelemetry Trace Testing for CI Release Gates

OpenTelemetry is great at answering one question: “what just broke?” The problem is that most teams need a different answer first: “what is about to break in this release?” That is where trace-based testing comes in, especially for teams running a vendor-neutral OTel stack (Collector + Tempo/Jaeger + Prometheus) and needing deterministic release gates.

Instrument and monitor Boomi integration flows with OpenTelemetry and Datadog

Boomi is an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) used by thousands of organizations to connect applications, data, and workflows across cloud and on-premises environments. Business-critical processes, from order fulfillment pipelines to customer data synchronization, depend on Boomi Atoms and Molecules running reliably.

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.

Send your existing OpenTelemetry traces to Sentry

You spent months instrumenting your app with OpenTelemetry. The idea of ripping it out to adopt a new observability backend is not an option. Sentry's OTLP endpoint means you don't have to. In fact, two environment variables are all you need and your existing traces start showing up in Sentry's trace explorer. Sentry's OTLP support is currently in open beta. This means you can start using it today, but there are some known limitations we'll cover later.

KubeCon Europe 2026: OpenTelemetry Recap from Amsterdam

The reason why I like writing recap articles is because AIs don’t have enough context to write them for us. You have to be there, in person, listen to sessions, interact in the hallways with the community, and absorb as much new knowledge as possible. That’s what I did last week in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe ‘26. Well, at least I tried to. Let me break down what I consider the most interesting topics were last week.

Distributed Tracing | Debugging your Next.js applications with Sentry

Sometimes a simple stack trace won’t provide enough information for you to debug the issue at hand. There are types of issues that require you to know what happened leading up to the exception. In those cases, reach for tracing. Distributed tracing gives you an overview of every operation that happened during the execution of a certain functionality across your whole stack. Aside from being an awesome debugging tool, it also lets you identify any performance bottlenecks in your application. In this video you’ll learn how to view traces in Sentry and implement them in your Next.js application.

Agno Monitoring & Observability with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

Learn how to implement end-to-end monitoring and observability for Agno-based AI systems using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz. In this video, we walk through instrumenting your Agno workflows, collecting traces, metrics, and logs, and visualizing everything in SigNoz to gain real-time visibility into performance, failures, and bottlenecks. You'll see how to move from basic logging to production-grade observability—so you can debug faster, optimize latency, and confidently run AI systems at scale.

Is OpenTelemetry overkill? There's a lazier (and better) way. #speedscale #sre #ebpf #kubernetes

If you "aspire to be lazy" like we do, you know that building staging environments and mocking complex back-ends (like MySQL, AI models, and 3rd party APIs) is a massive time sink. In this demo, we show you how to use Internet Magic (aka eBPF) to: Stay tuned for Part 2, where we take these recordings and spin up a staging environment automatically.