A developer evaluated six LLM observability tools—Langfuse, Helicone, Arize Phoenix, LangSmith, Braintrust, and Laminar—for their ability to monitor the audio layer in voice agents, not just LLM calls…
A developer's guide to AI Ops explains how to automate modern infrastructure using dynamic baselines, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and LLM-driven root cause analysis. The approach reduces Mean Time …
ClickHouse, the open-source database, has built a thriving ecosystem around open standards including OpenTelemetry for observability, the Model Context Protocol for AI agents, and open table formats l…
SigNoz released a guide for instrumenting JBoss EAP and WildFly application servers with OpenTelemetry to send traces to its observability platform. The guide covers manual configuration via JVM optio…
SigNoz released a guide for instrumenting Java and Spring Boot applications with OpenTelemetry to send traces to its observability platform. The guide covers automatic instrumentation via the OpenTele…
SigNoz released a guide on using the OpenTelemetry Datadog Receiver to receive metrics from Datadog Agents without modifying applications, enabling gradual migration to OpenTelemetry. The receiver act…
A developer argues that traditional distributed tracing tools fail for LLM-based multi-agent systems because they capture infrastructure events but not message-level communication between agents. The …
A developer built RagScope, an open-source tool that audits RAG pipelines to reveal wasted retrieval latency from chunks fetched but never used in the final prompt. The tool uses OpenTelemetry traces …
The Agent Audit Trail Format (AATF) is an open specification for recording why AI agents make decisions, including alternatives considered, confidence scores, and rejected options. It provides a struc…
SigNoz released a tutorial on auto-instrumenting Python applications with OpenTelemetry, enabling automatic collection of traces, metrics, and logs without code changes. The guide covers installing th…
SigNoz published a guide on instrumenting Spring Boot applications with OpenTelemetry, demonstrating how to set up a demo application, generate telemetry data, and visualize it in SigNoz. The tutorial…
SigNoz announced a new integration with the Vercel AI SDK and OpenTelemetry to provide observability for LLM-powered applications, enabling developers to monitor latency, errors, and model behavior in…
Elastic has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2026 report, recognized for its SIEM-replacement capabilities, open data architecture, A…
Arize AI and Databricks announced a dual-export capability for OpenTelemetry traces, allowing teams to send the same production traces to both Arize AX for operational debugging and Databricks Unity C…
An AI consultant revealed that a client spent nearly half a billion dollars in a single month due to unset usage limits on AI licenses, highlighting the need for FinOps principles adapted to AI. The a…
Hosted coding agents are shifting observability from an enterprise add-on to a core product feature. AWS's Bedrock AgentCore exemplifies this trend by enabling agents to run remotely, which requires r…
A single client of an AI consultant spent nearly half a billion dollars in one month due to missing usage limits on AI licenses, highlighting a growing cost-control crisis. FinOps for AI, using open s…
HashiCorp announced the general availability of the open-source Terraform MCP Server, enabling AI agents to interact with Terraform Registry APIs. The server automates routine infrastructure tasks lik…
Galdor, a Go-native framework for building and observing AI agents, launched v1.0.0 in June 2026 with built-in OpenTelemetry tracing, an embedded SQLite dashboard, and first-party support for both MCP…
An engineer details how to implement tail sampling for LLM application traces to control observability costs while preserving critical data. The approach uses OpenTelemetry's tail sampling processor t…