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At Bindplane, we iterate fast. One of the most important tools we've adopted across our organization is Claude Code. It helps every team here build solutions to complex problems with both speed and precision. But speed without visibility is a liability. We needed a reliable way to monitor and audit how Claude Code was being used across our team. Luckily, we build the best platform on the market for data in motion.

Two days in Minneapolis with the OpenTelemetry community, talking about where telemetry pipelines are headed and what the AI wave is doing to them. Two topics dominated everything: AI and cost reduction. Not as separate conversations, either. The more the community talked about AI telemetry, the more the cost question followed right behind it. I joined Diana Todea from VictoriaMetrics and Antonio Jimenez Martinez from Cisco ThousandEyes on the Telemetry That Matters panel.

Originally published June 2024. Updated May 2026. A lot has changed since the first version of this guide. In May 2026, OpenTelemetry officially graduated within the CNCF, the highest maturity level a project can achieve. All three core signals (metrics, logs, and traces) are now stable across every major language SDK. Collector adoption has never been higher, and the ecosystem around it, particularly OpAMP for remote management, has matured significantly. This update walks through three things.

Today we're rolling out a major upgrade to API Keys in Bindplane. You can now create up to 25 API keys per project, give each one a description, set an expiration date, and delete keys you no longer need. Under the hood, every key is now hashed with Argon2, the modern standard for credential storage. If you've been working around the old single-key limit by sharing one key across CI jobs, scripts, and teammates, this release is for you.

The Google Cloud Next 2026 recap covers booth demos, OpenTelemetry and SecOps, and talks from Craig Lee and Laura Luttmer. Watch the recap.

If you're running OpenTelemetry collectors against Azure Event Hubs, distributed partition ownership and checkpointing just got significantly better. Your fleet now self-organizes. Failover is automatic. Restarts don't lose data. Here's how we got here.

Many security teams are looking to move off Splunk, whether to reduce licensing costs, consolidate their SIEM, or take advantage of Google SecOps' built-in threat intelligence and YARA-L detection capabilities. But migrations aren’t easy, and no one wants to run blind while they evaluate and move to a new platform. With OpenTelemetry and Bindplane, you can easily make the switch to SecOps without impacting your existing stack.

Today we're rolling out the Bindplane AI Skill, a built-in capability of the Bindplane CLI (v1.98+) that teaches your favorite AI coding tool how to work with Bindplane — natively, accurately, and without the setup headaches of traditional integrations. Read Part 2 of the Bindplane AI Skill series to learn more about how we built it and how it works with real-life examples.

If you've spent any time wiring AI coding agents into developer platforms over the last year, you've probably reached for MCP. We did too. And after enough sessions watching context windows balloon and tool calls misfire, we started looking for something different. This is the story of what we built instead — a native AI skill for the Bindplane CLI — and the engineering decisions behind it.