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honeycomb

OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration for LLM Observability

Oct 7, 2026 By Mike Goldsmith In Honeycomb
Your LLM application emits telemetry unlike anything else in your stack. Model calls, tool invocations, retrieval steps, and token usage arrive as spans whose attributes carry entire prompts and completions. That data is bulky, it's full of user content you may not be allowed to export, and depending on which instrumentation each service uses, the same fact can arrive under different attribute names.
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observiq

How to Filter and Reduce AI Agent Telemetry with OpenTelemetry & Bindplane

Oct 6, 2026 By Adnan Rahic In ObservIQ
Why is the telemetry AI agents generate so intimidating? If you turn on Claude Code’s internal telemetry it’ll throw a wall of text at you. And, it’s very expensive to store. But, the bigger issue is that you can’t make sense of it. Luckily it’s all OpenTelemetry native. That means you can configure it to send, transform, and store what you really need. Which raises the only question that matters. What do you actually need?
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scout

FastAPI 0.142 Turns On OpenTelemetry by Default. Here's What It Records.

Oct 5, 2026 By Scout APM In Scout
FastAPI 0.142.0 ships with OpenTelemetry built in. Install fastapi, set one environment variable, and every request produces a trace, metrics, and error logs. No middleware, no instrumentation package, no code. That’s a big change for a framework most Python teams instrument by hand. It’s also easy to misread. The defaults record more than some teams expect in one place, and less than others assume in another. Here’s what you actually get.
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Introducing Distributed Tracing in Netdata

Oct 1, 2026 By Netdata In netdata
Netdata now supports distributed tracing. In this webinar, we'll demo the new tracing capabilities for the first time: OpenTelemetry trace ingestion, the new tracing dashboard, and the UI built to let you move from a metric anomaly to the exact span that caused it. For years, teams have asked us to close the gap between infrastructure monitoring and application performance. This release does that. Netdata can now ingest traces via OTEL, correlate them with the metrics and logs you already collect, and surface them in a purpose-built interface designed for speed and clarity.
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Path to OTel Code Owner: Lessons from otelhttp (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call #10)

Sep 29, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we're joined by Sonal Gaud, code owner of otelhttp on opentelemetry-go-contrib. We'll trace her path from writing test-coverage PRs to owning the instrumentation library that most Go services use to get HTTP traces and metrics for free — and go deep on how otelhttp actually works under the hood: context propagation, metrics/attributes via the Labeler, route cardinality, and how the library evolves alongside HTTP semantic conventions.
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appsignal

Distributed Tracing Is Now in Beta for Ruby, PHP, and Python

Sep 22, 2026 By Serena Chou In AppSignal
A request comes in, enqueues a job, and returns. Twenty seconds later the job runs, and it’s slow. You have a trace of the request and a trace of the job, and nothing joining them. Time Detective has always helped you reconstruct what happened. Now we join it up for you, across applications, services, background jobs and infrastructure, even when they’re built in different languages.
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honeycomb

How Adaptive Tail Sampling Works in the OpenTelemetry Collector

Sep 21, 2026 By Mike Goldsmith In Honeycomb
You're producing more trace data than you want to pay to store, so you sample. A fixed 1-in-100 rate cuts your bill, but it's blind. It keeps 1% of your errors, 1% of the requests to that rarely-hit route, and 1% of the health checks, all at the same rate. The noisy traffic you care about least dominates what you keep while the traces you need during an incident are the ones most likely to be gone.
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Telemetry Talks ep 7 - Beyond OpenTelemetry with anomaly detection

Sep 17, 2026 By VictoriaMetrics In VictoriaMetrics
In this episode, we continue to dive into the workshop we hosted at Cloud Native Days Romania in May, together with our guest, Fred Navruzov, correlating OpenTelemetry with anomaly detection. Furthermore we explore how the VictoriaMetrics MCP server and skills bring AI-powered observability to your workflows. Learn how to detect anomalies faster and interact with your metrics, logs and traces using natural language.
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speedscale

Five Ways to Use OpenTelemetry Beyond Observability

Sep 11, 2026 By Matt LeRay In Speedscale
OpenTelemetry graduated from the CNCF in May 2026 as, in the foundation’s own words, the de facto observability standard. The JavaScript API package alone did 1.36 billion downloads in twelve months. That kind of win has a side effect nobody plans for. Once a wire format is everywhere, has a receiver for every source, a transform language, and an agent your platform team already operates, people start putting things on it that have nothing to do with knowing whether a service is healthy.
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