Policies in OpenTelemetry

Learn from Jacob Aronoff about a novel method of configuration for telemetry that enables high-throughput filtering and transformation via Policies are Officially Part of OpenTelemetry.

OTel in Linux

The one and only Michele Mancioppi shared some really good news: auto-instrumentation system packages on Linux hosts are now available!

Monitoring Claude Code

Claude Code Monitoring at Scale: Gateways and Routing With OpenTelemetry by Adnan Rahic is a great hands-on deep dive on the topic.

OTel for GenAI

In How OpenTelemetry Traces LLM Calls, Agent Reasoning, and MCP Tools Dennis Zhuang explains the current status of the GenAI work in upstream OTel.

Tooling

Two excellent tools that you can now use to speed up your OTel-related tasks:

• Juraci Paixão Kröhling introduced OpenTelemetry Agent Skills.
• The folks from Sematext made the AI Skill for Instrumenting with OpenTelemetry available.

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!