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Tracing does a lot more than help you monitor performance. It's what ties errors, logs, and session replay together in Sentry, so you, and your agents actually know what happened. It's included in every Sentry plan.

In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we're exploring OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI). OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) offers a powerful way to instrument applications at the system kernel level, capturing essential “RED metrics” — request rate, error rate, and duration — and network flows without requiring code changes, rebuilds, or redeployments. We will cover the project's architecture, discuss its origins as Grafana Beyla, and look ahead to the roadmap for language and runtime coverage.

In this episode, we explore how to build a modern Kubernetes observability stack using open-source technologies such as VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Grafana. Based on a step by step workshop we gave at Cloud Native Days Romania in May, Jose is walking us through it with practical examples. Playlist Resources for Further Learning.

Netdata started as a lightweight agent you install across your systems to collect and visualize metrics in real time. In this clip, we walk through how that model evolved as OpenTelemetry became the industry standard, and why logs pushed that evolution even further.

In this video, we use Claude MCP to create and merge Docker container dashboards in Uptrace — directly from the terminal, no manual clicking required. What you'll see: CPU, memory, network, and disk I/O dashboards created with plain text prompts Two dashboards merged into one unified view Dashboard exported as YAML for version control.

Learn how to implement end to end monitoring and observability for Langflow using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz. In this video, we walk through instrumenting Langflow workflows, collecting traces, metrics, and logs, and visualizing everything in SigNoz to gain real time visibility into flow execution, LLM requests, tool calls, token usage, latency, failures, and performance bottlenecks. Langflow ships with built in OpenTelemetry support, making it easy to export telemetry to SigNoz with minimal configuration.

Learn how to trace complex multi-hop transactions across microservices when OpenTelemetry isn't available or trace parents get lost. This quick tutorial demonstrates how to use full-text search in proxymock (a free CLI and UI tool) to isolate user journeys (like looking up a specific username) and instantly generate waterfall tracing views. Whether you are working locally or in a Kubernetes cluster, you can record API traffic, visualize multi-hop requests, and easily transition those captures into load or regression tests.

This video explains how to trace a user through older or inaccessible services using identifiable information like emails or usernames when OpenTelemetry traces are unavailable.