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grafana

From raw data to flame graphs: A deep dive into how the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler symbolizes Go

Mar 25, 2026 By Marc Sanmiquel In Grafana
Imagine you're troubleshooting a production issue: your application is slow, the CPU is spiking, and users are complaining. You turn to your profiler for answers—after all, this is exactly what it's built for. The profiler runs, collecting thousands of stack samples. eBPF profilers, including the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler, operate at the kernel level, so they capture raw program counters: memory addresses pointing into your binary.
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datadog

Explore Kubernetes with native OpenTelemetry data

Mar 23, 2026 By Allie Rittman In Datadog
Kubernetes environments generate a constant stream of signals across clusters, nodes, pods, and workloads. For teams that have standardized on OpenTelemetry (OTel), maintaining ownership of that data is critical. But in practice, many observability platforms require translation into vendor-specific data formats, leading to fragmented product experiences, blank dashboards, and uncertainty about data integrity.
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datadog

Annotate traces to improve LLM quality with Datadog LLM Observability

Mar 23, 2026 By Rashel Hoover In Datadog
LLM applications rarely crash. They degrade quietly. Once these applications are shipped to production, subtle quality failures become harder to catch with traditional signals. Tone shifts, hallucinated details, off-topic responses, and incomplete reasoning can emerge while latency and token usage look stable.
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canonical

Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector

Mar 17, 2026 By Simon Aronsson In Canonical
Teams continuously deploy programmable telemetry pipelines to production, without having access to a dry-run mode. At the same time, most organizations lack staging environments that resemble production – especially with regards to observability and other platform-level services.
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observiq

OpAMP for OpenTelemetry: Managing Collector Fleets and Introducing the New OpAMP Gateway Extension

Mar 13, 2026 By Andy Keller In ObservIQ
Today, Bindplane is launching the OpAMP Gateway Extension in alpha — a new component that extends OpAMP fleet management into network-segmented and firewalled environments where direct agent-to-server connectivity is not possible. It also addresses fleet scaling by fanning many agent connections into a small upstream pool, reducing connection load on the OpAMP server. We also hope to donate the OpAMP Gateway Extension upstream to the OpenTelemetry project and welcome community contributions.
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grafana

Native OpenTelemetry inside Alloy: Now you can get the best of both worlds

Mar 12, 2026 By Bejal Lewis In Grafana
We're big proponents of OpenTelemetery, which has quickly become a new unified standard for delivering metrics, logs, traces, and even profiles. It's an essential component of Alloy, our popular telemetry agent, but we're also aware that some users would prefer to have a more "vanilla" OpenTelemetry experience.
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sentry

Routing OpenTelemetry logs to Sentry using OTLP

Mar 5, 2026 By James W. In Sentry
If you've already instrumented your app with OpenTelemetry, you don't have to rip it out to use Sentry. Two environment variables and your logs start flowing into Sentry, no SDK changes, no re-instrumentation. Here's how to set it up in a sample app, and when the native Sentry SDK might be the better call.
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grafana

Generating metrics from traces with cardinality control: A closer look at HyperLogLog in Tempo

Mar 4, 2026 By Carles Garcia In Grafana
While tracing is a critical component of any observability strategy, metrics — especially RED metrics (request rate, error rate, and duration) — are widely considered the gold standard for monitoring service health. Tempo, the open source, easy-to-use, and highly scalable distributed tracing backend, is well known in the OSS community for storing and querying traces. It can also, however, generate RED metrics directly from those traces using the optional metrics-generator component.
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atlassian

OpenTelemetry traces for Bitbucket Pipelines via webhooks

Mar 4, 2026 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian
Continuous delivery is only as good as your ability to understand what’s happening inside your pipelines. When a build is slow, flaky, or burning through capacity, you need more than a green/red status and a wall of logs — you need traces. Bitbucket Pipelines now exposes pipeline execution as OpenTelemetry (OTel) traces via webhook events. This lets you stream detailed pipeline spans into your own observability stack and correlate them with the rest of your system. This post walks through.
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Avantra

SAP Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Beyond Generic Metrics

Feb 25, 2026 By Avantra In Avantra
Your enterprise APM tool shows SAP is using 90% CPU. The dashboard turns red. An alert fires. Now what? You open Dynatrace. You see the Java Virtual Machine metrics for your NetWeaver stack. You see HTTP response times for your Fiori apps. You see a spike in database calls. None of this tells you why VA01 takes 45 seconds to create a sales order. None of this tells you which custom ABAP report is consuming memory. None of this explains the short dump that crashed your pricing routine. This is the gap between generic APM and true SAP application performance monitoring. Your enterprise tools see the symptoms.
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