OpenTelemetry series: Anatomy of an OTel span
This article provides a detailed breakdown of the anatomy of an OpenTelemetry span, explaining its core building blocks such as context, name, kind, and attributes. It illustrates …
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Create histogram metrics at ingest with OpenPipeline
Dynatrace’s OpenPipeline now enables the extraction of histogram metrics from existing spans and logs during ingestion, eliminating the need for manual service re-instrumentation. …
OpenTelemetry series: Understanding OTel traces and spans
This article explains how OpenTelemetry uses traces and spans to provide end-to-end visibility into the journey of requests within complex distributed systems like microservices an…
MCP is going stateless: What the new spec means for AI agents
The Model Context Protocol is transitioning to a stateless architecture, enabling remote MCP servers to function as scalable HTTP services that no longer require complex session ma…
How Observability transforms vibe coding into AI engineering
To transform unreliable AI-generated code into production-ready software, organizations must move beyond simple prompting toward a multi-layered approach involving structured plann…
Bringing traces to your AI Agents with OpenTelemetry and Strands SDK
As autonomous AI agent architectures become increasingly complex, robust observability through OpenTelemetry is essential for diagnosing issues like hallucinations and performance …
Building Future-Proof Observability with OpenTelemetry APIs and New Relic Agents
New Relic’s hybrid agent facilitates an incremental transition to OpenTelemetry by allowing developers to use standard OTel APIs while leveraging existing New Relic APM infrastruct…
Building in the open: How Dynatrace invests in open source to move the industry forward
Dynatrace highlights its active leadership and significant contributions to key open-source projects, including OpenTelemetry, W3C Trace Context, and OpenFeature. By driving the de…
OpenTelemetry graduates: A milestone for the observability Open Source community
OpenTelemetry has officially graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), establishing itself as a stable, production-ready standard for observability. This milesto…
Replicate New Relic Language Agent Error Filtering Functionality
This article explains how New Relic represents errors through metrics and spans and highlights the importance of filtering non-actionable errors to prevent alert fatigue and inflat…
New Relic eBPF Expands Kernel-Level Observability
New Relic eBPF provides full-stack kernel observability by extending visibility across applications, infrastructure, and network layers without requiring manual code instrumentatio…
Observability is a team sport
The author argues that observability should be treated as a shared responsibility across all engineering roles—including developers, SREs, and DevOps—rather than the task of a cent…