TIL, this is a key feautre in GitHub to ensure that coding agent and code review agent play along well. Works far better than asking them in their rules file to do so.
Managing my local #OpenTelemetry collector from my menu bar now, thanks to compy, a helpful wrapper I asked a LLM to build 🔭 github.com/bronto-commu...
The TRACEPARENT environment variable is not only used in your CI/CD pipeline, a coding agent can use it to propagate context to your tools. Did a short video on it:-)
I'll be at HumanX in Amsterdam next week, giving out little brontos and talking about observability:-)
Bronto@bronto-io.bsky.social · 2w agoWe had a great time at #LDX3 by @leaddev.com! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to learn about Bronto's new approach to observability. Next up... #HumanX in Amsterdam
Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation. The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable. buff.ly/cKwKa7v
Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation
A trace does not always cross a network boundary. A workflow runner starts a shell, the shell launches a build tool, and the build tool starts test processes. Batch and data-processing systems create…
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Had some fun asking an LLM to help me compile an analysis of the 600+ blog posts that use the „it’s 2am…“ (or 3am) cliché: its-2am-analysis.vercel.app
It's 2am, you have read this post
604 DevOps and SRE posts reach for that night anyway — 399 of them in the first line, and 18 independently chose 2:47am. Then we asked an LLM for 100 openings of its own.
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My phone just autocorrected kubernetes to Kinderbetreuung ... feels like an accurate translation somehow 🫠
Life Hack: use passphrases to improve your writing skills! I learned to write some words properly by having them in my phrases!
The OpenTelemetry Demo 3.0 is out, and yes, we broke it! In this blog post we share the highlights of what changed in the 3.0 release. And if you're a vendor using the Demo to showcase your OTel support, here's your call to action: Please update your instructions. buff.ly/gSt6uFX
We broke the OTel demo
If you’ve been running the Demo for some time, you may have seen a couple of structural changes lately, and you may even have gotten mad about things not working as expected. We feel your pain and we…
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Heading to Yokohama next week? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan runs July 28-30, and we've collected every OpenTelemetry session in one place. Community Day kicks things off on the 28th. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/ku...
OpenTelemetry @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan takes place July 28-30, 2026, in Yokohama, Japan. Register today to join us! Here are all the OpenTelemetry-related sessions, up to date at the time of writing. Session…
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📢 OpenTelemetry community: all Zoom meetings are moving to the LFX Project Control Center. Please update your calendars. Issues or questions? Comment on the tracking issue or ask in #opentelemetry on CNCF Slack. 🔗 github.com/open-telemet...
Migration of Zoom meetings to Linux Foundation Project Control Center · Issue #3548 · open-telemetry/community
The CNCF has reached out to us to migrate our existing Zoom meetings to Linux Foundation Project Control Center. Extract of the message received: We are reaching out regarding the global deprecatio...
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"I am not a native English speaker and that’s why I used AI to answer your questions." A letter to all first-time contributors: svrnm.com/blog/dear-fi...
Dear first-time contributor
I am not a native English speaker and that’s why I used AI to answer your questions. I keep seeing this, or a version of it, on issues and PRs. Reading it over and over again, especially when written ...
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Go Compile-Time Instrumentation just hit v1! 🎉 Add OpenTelemetry to your Go services with zero code changes. Swap go build for otelc go build and get automatic instrumentation for your app, dependencies & the standard library. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/go...
Announcing v1 of OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation
If you write Java, Python, Node.js, or .NET, you have been able to add OpenTelemetry to an application without editing its code for years: attach an agent at startup and telemetry starts flowing. Go…
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OTel's Spring Boot starter now supports declarative config (2.26.0): the full SDK YAML schema inside application.yaml, under one `otel:` key. Try it out: opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/sp...
The Voyage of a Small Environment Variable
The OpenTelemetry Spring Boot starter gained declarative-configuration support starting in version 2.26.0 — the same YAML schema the Java agent introduced in late 2025, now embedded inside…
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What a great video about notifications and alerts. While @mskayyali.com addresses notifications on phones with it, there is so much to learn for any kind of alerting, including what we do in the Observability Space. A must watch!
Saleh@mskayyali.com · 3mo agoNew video on Interface Studies Our phone’s notifications are an alarm problem. Oil refineries, nuclear plants, and hospitals developed a whole discipline around it. The Lost Discipline of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot youtu.be/Ira28fgSF7M
Calling Dart & Flutter developers! There's a push to bring officially maintained OpenTelemetry support to Dart and Flutter and they're looking for contributors to help make it happen. Interested in shaping observability for Dart? buff.ly/YFfwlUJ #OpenTelemetry #Flutter #Dart
Call for Contributors: OpenTelemetry for Dart and Flutter
Why OpenTelemetry for Dart and Flutter? Dart is a full-stack language and the language of Flutter, one of the most popular frameworks for building cross-platform applications. Data shows over 20% of…
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#OpenTelemetry is a #CNCF graduated project From OpenCensus and OpenTracing to today, this project has been a community effort from the start. Thank you to everyone who contributed code, docs, specs, reviews, feedback, and end-user experiences. This milestone belongs to you. buff.ly/SSE3ct3
OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that OpenTelemetry has graduated. Graduation is an important milestone for the project and reflects the strength of the OpenTelemetry…
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I made an observation the other day, that many open source repositories provide an AGENTS(dot)md, but not something equivalent for humans. I wrote about it, and came to the conclusion that, there is no need for HUMANS(dot)md svrnm.com/blog/humans....
No need for HUMANS.md
A while back I was exploring an open source project I was using, and interested in contributing to, as it provided capabilities I needed but missed some additional ones I wanted to have. Naturally, I ...
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From the Norwegian Consumer Council: „The Enshittificator“ vimeo.com/1168468796?f... — make it shitty 😭
The Enshittificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…
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It looks like human-to-human key signing parties will soon come back into fashion.
If hexagons are the bestagons, are metrics the bestrics? svrnm.com/blog/metrics...
Are metrics the bestrics?
“What’s your favorite telemetry signal” has been the last question of the Humans of OpenTelemetry series for the last few years. At KubeCon EU 2024 my answer to this was “profiling, because I think th...
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A lab and a blog post about turning traces into helpful insights about your SQL queries: something I worked on for the last few weeks is finally published on the Causely blog and on GitHub, for you to use and copy:-)
Causely@causely.ai · 8mo agoSlow SQL queries degrade UX & reliability. This guide shows how to distill #OpenTelemetry DB spans into actionable metrics: build span-derived slow-query dashboards, rank queries by traffic impact, and detect regressions with anomaly baselines. Lab included. www.causely.ai/blog/how-to-...
See how Causely continuously builds an always-on service graph (services, infra, and data flows) and combines it with traces, metrics, and logs to pinpoint the exact regression, its blast radius, and the causal path — with clear, explainable reasoning in seconds.
The latest Annual Cloud Native Survey by @cncf.io gave an update on adoption for projects, and of course I checked were the numbers for @opentelemetry.io : Close to 50% in production! This is an impressive result, I am really proud of what our community has accomplished! www.cncf.io/wp-content/u...
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Hope to see you all at Unplugged (or FOSDEM?)
OpenTelemetry@opentelemetry.io · 9mo agoNew year resolution: Connect with the #OpenTelemetry community IRL ✨ OTel Unplugged EU - Feb 2 in Brussels → Unconference format → You pick the topics → Direct maintainer access → Real roadmap influence 1 month out. Limited spots: buff.ly/aaUyQsx RT if you're attending or thinking about it!
Join us in Brussels on Monday, February 2, 2026—the day after FOSDEM—for OTel Unplugged EU 2026, an unconference shaped by and for the OpenTelemetry community. events.humanitix.com/otelunplugge...
OTel Unplugged EU 2026
A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future.
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