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Observo AI Wins InfoWorld's 2025 Technology of the Year Award for Observability

I am thrilled to share that Observo AI has been named InfoWorld’s 2025 Technology of the Year Award winner in the Observability category. This honor recognizes the products that are defining the future of enterprise technology, those pushing AI from theory into meaningful, practical impact. “Artificial intelligence is reshaping products across the technology landscape, often in surprising ways,” said Executive Editor Doug Dineley, InfoWorld.

Reporting Exceptions to Honeycomb with Frontend Observability

So you've built a client application and you've started sending telemetry. The information sent back by this client is vital to you, and one of the first things you care about is capturing and reporting errors. There are at least two ways to report error details in OpenTelemetry. Web applications generally place exceptions in trace spans as span events, and mobile applications send exceptions as log messages instead.

OpenTelemetry Metrics with 5 Practical Examples

Picture this, your observability tool already nails the basics like request rates, latency and memory usage, but you need more insight. Think user churn rates, engagement spikes, or even how many carts get abandoned mid-checkout. That’s where OpenTelemetry steps in, providing a way to track those critical custom metrics with ease.

Lean Operations for a Fragmented Middleware World: Why Efficiency, Resilience and Compliance Now Depend on a New Model

Fragmented middleware estates create hidden costs, operational drag, and growing compliance risk. Learn why lean operations, unified visibility, and built-in auditability are now essential for modern messaging and streaming environments.

Graylog Guided Demo

Have a sneak peek at Graylog V7.0. Graylog V7.0 introduces a major step forward in speed, usability, and visibility across your entire security and operations workflow. In this demo, we walk through the newest capabilities designed to help teams detect, investigate, and respond faster than ever. You’ll see how the updated interface streamlines daily tasks, how the enhanced search and pipeline tools simplify complex data handling, and how powerful additions like built-in correlation and modernized dashboards give you clearer insight with less effort.

Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline

On December 11, 2025, GitHub experienced intermittent disruptions that frustrated users across the globe. Developers everywhere started seeing random errors, 503s, unicorns, and CI pipeline failures. Very quickly it became clear something was wrong, even though GitHub’s status page still said ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL. After the incident was over, GitHub published a postmortem that revealed the cause: scrapers. Automated tools hit GitHub with enough traffic to overwhelm key backend systems.

Agentic AI demands a new data architecture #ai #telemetry

Clint Sharp explains why traditional schema-on-read systems cannot handle the query loads of the future. Agentic telemetry requires a 360-degree view, but structuring data only when you read it is too slow for AI-driven workloads. The solution is using LLMs to drive the cost of building parsers to near zero. Tools like Copilot Editor allow teams to map data to OCSF instantly, effectively building factories of parsers to handle the scale of agentic AI.

OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry Proposes Changes to Stability, Releases, and Semantic Conventions

Over the past year, the Governance Committee ran user interviews and surveys with organizations deploying OpenTelemetry at scale. A few patterns came up consistently: Stability levels aren't always obvious. When you install an OTel distribution, some components might be experimental or alpha without clear markers. This makes it harder to evaluate what's production-ready. Instrumentation libraries sometimes wait on semantic conventions.