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Observability isn't about the tool. It's about the truth

An enterprise client reports latency. Your dashboards say everything is fine. They blame you. You blame them. Nobody can prove it either way. This is where most monitoring efforts hit a wall. Too often, the conversation gets stuck on dashboards and tools instead of the one thing that really matters: truth. Observability isn’t about collecting metrics or building pretty dashboards.

LangChain Observability: From Zero to Production in 10 Minutes

LangChain apps are powerful, but they’re not easy to monitor. A single request might pass through an LLM, a vector store, external APIs, and a custom chain of tools. And when something slows down or silently fails, debugging is often guesswork. In one instance, a developer ended up with an unexpected $30,000 OpenAI bill, with no visibility into what triggered it. This blog shows how to avoid that using OpenTelemetry and LangSmith. With this setup, you’ll be able to.

Netdata: The Fastest Path to Full Stack Observability. AI Powered.

Netdata is a real-time, high-performance and on-premises observability platform designed to monitor metrics and logs with unparalleled efficiency. Netdata requires zero-configuration to get started, and provides alerts, anomaly detection and AI assisted troubleshooting out of the box, providing a powerful and comprehensive infrastructure monitoring experience. Netdata is known for its distributed design. Instead of funneling all data into a few central databases like most traditional monitoring solutions, Netdata processes data at the edge, keeping it close to the source.

MCP Observability with OpenTelemetry

2025 has truly been the year of Agentic AI, with MCP (Model Context Protocol) emerging as one of its flashy and most talked-about innovations. While many products have seamlessly integrated MCP servers into their systems, these servers are increasingly being labelled as black boxes, opaque components that handle critical tasks but offer little visibility into what's happening under the hood. We prompt an agent, a tool gets invoked, and a response is generated. But what really happens in between?

Can Claude Code Observe Its Own Code?

One of the great things about OpenTelemetry is that it’s a standard, and standards tend to proliferate. I was excited to see Claude Code add OpenTelemetry metric and log support in a recent release. What was really interesting—beyond the ability to capture usage data from Claude Code—is that you can also get pretty detailed logs about what you’re doing with Claude Code.

Why GovRAMP-authorized observability matters for state, local, and education IT teams

Building on our FedRAMP Moderate authorization and our “In Process” status for FedRAMP High, Datadog for Government is now "In Process" for GovRAMP High Authorization, giving agencies a unified observability platform that meets the toughest public-sector security bars.