Reducing o11y bill

Bahman Movaqar wrote about Log Quad: Domesticate Your Logging Bill, showing you how to understand what is useful, what can be more efficiently emitted, while reducing your o11y bill.

The observability desk

Check out The Observability Desk by Dan Burdeinick, Marcus Webb, and Anya Patel. This is a useful resource from and for practitioners, focusing on deep-dive engineering content on making AI agents, LLM pipelines, and autonomous systems observable, reliable, and secure.

OpenTelemetry Koans

Absolutely enjoyed "playing" Matthew Reider's OpenTelemetry Koans with 20 interactive exercises. KUTGW!

New players in town

The ecosystem is thriving, here two new players you may want to check out:

• Mills by Sawmills, an agentic telemetry management platform
• Ray, providing OpenTelemetry traces, logs, and metrics, queryable by SQL

OTel Blueprints

OpenTelemetry Blueprints is an online tool that allows you to generate an OpenTelemetry reference architecture including visualization.

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!