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Observability has an investigation problem, and dashboards and alerts aren’t enough for solving problems in today’s complex systems. AI-driven capabilities, powerful analytics, and the ability to scale are essential to drive real-time investigations while keeping costs low. We think this is why Elastic has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the second time.

When we talk to new Honeycomb users, a few things stand out as sounding downright magical. Sometimes we’ll hear, “Wow, is that a new feature?” and we’ll say that no, it’s been like that for years. Clearly we need to get the word out! This is the first installment of a blog series I’ll be writing, covering areas of Honeycomb that elicit reactions of awe and disbelief from new users.

LLM-powered agents are reshaping software, but when they fail, troubleshooting is guesswork. Lumigo’s new AI Agent Observability, now in beta, gives you visibility into the entire lifecycle of your agents, from prompt to response to internal decision logic. Built for modern AI workloads, this feature is designed to help engineers monitor, debug, and optimize agents running on platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source models.

Note: Grafana Beyla has been donated to OpenTelemetry under the new project name OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation. Beyla will continue to exist as Grafana Labs’ distribution of the upstream project. Grafana Beyla is an open source eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool that helps you easily get started with application observability, allowing you to monitor and visualize traces without modifying the application code.

Today, BigPanda released our first-ever research report based on data gathered from our agentic IT operations platform. Our Monitoring and Observability Tool Effectiveness for IT Event Management report provides insights and benchmarks on incident detection and noise reduction for 130 enterprise organizations, including the monitoring and observability data sources integrated with BigPanda.

With grafana/otel-lgtm, observability is just one Docker command away. Over the past year, grafana/otel-lgtm has simplified observability setups, helping developers get a complete OpenTelemetry stack running in under five seconds. With integrations for metrics, logs, traces, and now profiles via Grafana Pyroscope, it has become a go-to solution for demos, development, and testing, as evidenced by its growing community (1k stars on GitHub and growing!) and notable adopters.