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CI/CD Observability Powered by OpenTelemetry

Modern engineering teams spend a lot of time and resources in setting up monitoring of their production systems - tracking uptime, catching errors, and responding to incidents before customers ever notice. But what about the journey before code reaches production? For most teams, observing the CI/CD pipeline is either an afterthought or completely overlooked. While we recognize its importance, do we truly understand how well our CI/CD process is functioning?

CI/CD Observability Powered by OpenTelemetry | SigNoz Launch Week 4.0 Day 4

Tired of guessing why your releases stall, which PRs are stuck, or where flaky tests are wasting your team’s time? Most teams obsess over production monitoring, but what about the bottlenecks that often hide in the CI/CD pipeline slowing delivery, draining productivity, and introducing risk before code ever ships. With CI/CD Observability, you can: So, stop flying blind in your delivery process and make every release faster, more reliable, and fully transparent!

Third party API Monitoring Powered by OTel Semantic Conventions | SigNoz Launch Week 4.0 Day 3

Is it the third-party API or my code? Your service suddenly slows down, or errors spike, and you’re stuck guessing if it’s your own logic or an external API you don’t control. We’ve seen this pain across teams: dashboards don’t tell you which vendor or endpoint is the culprit, and debugging turns into a maze of guesswork. Rate limiting, vendor errors, or integration issues often slip through until users complain.

Introducing Metrics Explorer | SigNoz Launch Week 4.0 Day 2

Ever tried to build a metrics dashboard and thought, “Wait, what metrics am I actually sending?” We heard this from users again and again-so we built Metrics Explorer. For the first time, you get a real-time, interactive view of every metric coming into your system: Whether you’re onboarding a new integration, debugging an alert, or just exploring your data, Metrics Explorer makes it easy to understand and work with your metrics-no more guesswork, just clarity.

CI/CD Observability Powered by OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

Most teams have strong monitoring for production, but what about the journey before your code gets deployed? The CI/CD pipeline is where bottlenecks, flaky tests, and process gaps silently waste your team’s time. Until now, this part of the workflow has mostly been a black box. We’re excited to announce CI/CD Observability in SigNoz - a new way to track, analyze, and improve your software delivery process, powered by OpenTelemetry.

Tracing Funnels - Define funnels b/w spans in your distributed system

Build funnels directly on your traces and get instant answers to questions like: What fraction of spans made it from event A to event B? Between which spans are most requests failing? What is the latency between key spans? Traditional observability tools let you inspect traces and spans, but they can’t aggregate or analyze how requests flow across multiple services or stages in your system. In asynchronous, distributed architectures, the root span rarely tells the full story-and there’s no way to measure conversion, drop-off, or latency between arbitrary steps across all traces.

Third party API Monitoring powered by OpenTelemetry semantics

In today’s cloud-native world, third-party APIs are everywhere. Payments, notifications, search, AI, analytics as modern applications are built on a web of external services. But what happens when one of those APIs slows down, starts throwing errors, or gets rate-limited? Suddenly, your users are facing issues, and you’re stuck asking.

Tracing Just Got a Whole Lot More Useful: Search, Visualize, and Alert with Sentry's new Query Engine

For a while, tracing in Sentry was... fine. You could open up a slow transaction, poke around, find the N+1, and feel like a hero. But if you wanted to answer more complex questions - like why your payment API was getting slower in Europe, or which CDN was silently tanking your image loads - things got harder. We didn't really build it to help with answering broad questions.

Deep Temporal Observability | SigNoz Launch Week 4.0 Day 1

If Temporal powers your business-critical workflows, you know how tough it is to get real visibility into what’s happening under the hood. Most tools only show basic Prometheus metrics-leaving you guessing about bottlenecks, failures, and performance issues. Join us for a live demo of SigNoz’s industry-first Temporal integration. We’ll show you how to: Whether you’re running Temporal in production or just exploring workflow orchestration, this session will show you how to move from “just metrics” to true, unified observability.

Unifying OpenTelemetry & Datadog | #Observability #OpenTelemetry #datadog

Previously, teams had to choose between adopting the OpenTelemetry Collector’s capabilities and fully leveraging our advanced features. On This Month in Datadog, we’re spotlighting our OTel Collector distribution, which unifies OTel and Datadog. Check out the link in our bio to watch the new episode.