# OpenTelemetry for Balatro

> Source: <https://svrnm.com/blog/balatro-otel/>
> Published: 2026-11-12 00:00:00+00:00

I should start this blog post with a witty joke, because that’s one of the key ingredients that make [Balatro](https://www.playbalatro.com/) such a beloved game. However, I can’t come up with one, so here’s a different intro: I am fascinated by the possibility that any software I use could, in theory, emit logs, metrics and traces through [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/). And Balatro is software that I **use** a lot. I’ve spent hundreds of hours with it, the best 2 × 10 euros I’ve ever spent<sup>[1](#fn:1)</sup>. So creating OpenTelemetry for Balatro was a side project I wanted to try out for a long time! It turned out to be one of those projects where I cared more about the outcome than about writing the code myself, so it was a perfect candidate to ask an LLM to build for me!