OTel releases

Via the official OpenTelemetry blog: read Evolving OpenTelemetry's Stabilization and Release Practices to understand how the Governance Committee plans to address community feedback on the complexity and lack of stability in OTel.

Prometheus instrumentation

Really great to see a Prometheus implementation for an initiative that originated in OTel. Check out Instrumentation score for Prometheus, allowing you to evaluate and improve your Prometheus metrics quality with automated scoring.

OTel goes osquery

Osquery & OpenTelemetry collector - SQL queries for Observability by Adam Gardner is a 10 min video explaining the Why and How.

Agent0

The good folks from Dash0 launched Agent0, their agentic AI platform, supporting a range of use cases from incident triage to query building. Congrats!

CloudWatch in action

My colleague Joe Alioto published I didn't know Amazon CloudWatch could do that, demonstrating a number of features from AIOps to APM to OTel capabilities.

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Bluesky DM. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!