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Observability for any agent, anywhere: Production-ready tracing with Open Telemetry & Unity Catalog on Databricks
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (1423+ words) Join us at the world's largest data, apps and AI event. Open Telemetry traces in Unity Catalog create a continuous improvement flywheel for AI agents through analytics, evals, and monitoring. by Firas Farah, Bruno Faria and Anoop Sunke As AI…...
CNCF's Open Telemetry achieves graduated status
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (107+ words) The open source observability framework graduated out of CNCF incubation after seven years. The CNCF's fastest growing project since Kubernetes, Open Telemetry, has graduated from the foundation's incubation scheme after a two year process. The open source observability framework, which…...
I Revived a Broken MLOps Platform " Now It's Self-Service, Policy-Guarded, and Operationally Credible
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (333+ words) I abandoned this Kubernetes platform on April 4th. 48 days later I rebuilt it: Crash Loop Back Off everywhere " self-service Git Ops, policy enforcement, and deterministic recovery. 21 checks. 0 failures. Here's exactly how Git Hub Copilot helped. Tagged with devchallenge, githubchallenge, githubcopilot, mlops....
Databricks Adds Open Telemetry Tracing
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (306+ words) AI Tracing Challenges leads to Traditional Observability Limits. Traditional Observability Limits solves with Databricks Unity Catalog. Databricks Unity Catalog uses Open Telemetry Tracing. Open Telemetry Tracing enables Serverless Ingestion. Databricks Unity Catalog provides Governed Observability. Governed Observability enables Deeper Analytics....
Why Your Logs Are Useless Without Traces
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (556+ words) Rendered visually, a trace is a waterfall: time on the horizontal axis, services and operations on the vertical, each span a coloured bar whose width is its duration. The slow span is the wide one. The failed span is red....
Why Your AI Agent Is a Black Box (And How to Fix It with Open Telemetry)
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (871+ words) You built the agent. It works in testing. Then it hits production and starts giving wrong answers, timing out, or burning through your token budget, and you have no idea why. This is when developers discover that print statements and…...
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Open Telemetry's Graduation, Solidifying Status as the De Facto Observability Standard
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (271+ words) Kube Con + Cloud Native Con India 2026 " 18-19 June " Mumbai " REGISTER NOW Enroll your company as a CNCF End User and save more than $10 K in training and conference costs Become an End User MINNEAPOLIS " OBSERVABILITY SUMMIT " May 21, 2026 " The Cloud Native Computing…...
Open Telemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (174+ words) Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that Open Telemetry has graduated. Graduation is an important milestone for the project and reflects the strength of the Open Telemetry community and ecosystem. Since the merger of Open Tracing and Open…...
Open Telemetry Pushes Deeper into Cloud Observability -
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (365+ words) Open Telemetry, the open source observability framework for collecting traces, metrics and logs, has graduated at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, marking a new maturity milestone for a project that is increasingly used across distributed application and infrastructure monitoring. Also…...
Measuring AI Gateway Failover: 30 Days of Production Data
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (520+ words) TL; DR: We measured failover latency across three AI gateways (Bifrost, Lite LLM, Portkey) during 30 days of production traffic at Nexus Labs. Bifrost added 11ms p99 overhead with automatic provider fallback. The model is the easy part. Routing it reliably is not....