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OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Standards, Tracing, and the Future of Observability | Big Tent S3E6

OpenTelemetry co-founder Ted Young joins Grafana’s Big Tent podcast to explain how observability evolved beyond logs, metrics, and traces. Learn why tracing is just logging with context, how OpenTelemetry became a standard, and what’s next for zero-touch instrumentation and AI-driven observability.

Uptrace Errors & Logs Tutorial: Capture Stacktraces, Context, and Traces in One Place

Every error tells a story — and Uptrace helps you see the full picture. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Uptrace to capture errors, logs, stacktraces, and request context in a single observability platform. See how errors automatically link to traces, understand exactly what happened, and debug issues faster with rich attributes, user data, and performance impact. What you’ll learn: Understand not just *what broke*, but *who it affected and why* — and fix problems with confidence using Uptrace.

Uptrace Tutorial: Dashboards, Percentiles, Heatmaps & OpenTelemetry Metrics

Learn how to use *Uptrace* to measure what truly matters in your applications using percentiles, heatmaps, and histograms—then turn that data into dashboards that answer questions before they’re even asked. In this tutorial, you’ll discover how to: Whether you’re setting up observability for the first time or replacing expensive monitoring tools, this guide shows how Uptrace helps you understand performance, reliability, and user experience — all in one place.

End-to-End Tracing with Uptrace: Follow Any Request Across Your Entire System

Stop guessing where requests slow down. With Uptrace, you can follow any request across your entire system and instantly see performance bottlenecks, errors, and latency sources. This video covers: Build real observability, not just dashboards.

OpenTelemetry in Production: Design for Order, High Signal, Low Noise, and Survival

A lot of talk around OpenTelemetry has to do with instrumentation, especially auto-instrumentation, about OTel being vendor neutral, being open and a defacto standard. But how you use the final output of OTel is what makes business difference. In other words, how do you use it to make your life as an SRE/DevOps/biz person easier? How do you have to set things up to truly solve production issues faster?

How Honeycomb Supercharges OpenTelemetry for AI

It has become common knowledge that the nature of software development has changed as AI-code generation and agent-based features gain adoption. In perhaps a more subtle shift, the fundamentals of software instrumentation are changing too. As OpenTelemetry becomes the standard instrumentation layer across enterprises, with thousands of developers (many from Honeycomb) actively contributing to it, the nature of the telemetry data captured itself is evolving to meet the growing demand for rich context.

What you missed at OTel Unplugged 2026 in 8 minutes!

OTel Unplugged 2026 was different by design. Held alongside FOSDEM in Brussels, this was an unconference built by the OpenTelemetry community, for the community. No sales pitches. No product demos. Just honest conversations about what’s working, what’s broken, and where OTel needs to go next. In this recap, you’ll hear short interviews and reflections from engineers, maintainers, and practitioners on.

Observability trends for 2026 (Part 2): GenAI and OpenTelemetry reshape the landscape

Over the course of my 20 years as a developer, SRE, and now observability product leader, software has typically progressed at a good pace. But now, the emergence of two transformative technologies are fundamentally reshaping enterprise observability: generative AI (GenAI) and OpenTelemetry (OTel). We surveyed over 500 IT decision-makers for a new report:The Landscape of Observability in 2026: Balancing Cost and Innovation.