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Learn: Observability

Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Traces, metrics, logs and alerts.

5 steps to the basics

Start here

  1. Observability primerOpenTelemetry · Logs, metrics and traces, and why you need all three.
  2. What is OpenTelemetry?OpenTelemetry · The open standard for collecting them.
  3. TracesOpenTelemetry · Following one request across services.
  4. Prometheus overviewPrometheus · Metrics and alerts, the open-source way.
  5. Monitoring distributed systemsGoogle · What to watch, and when to wake someone.

New for beginners

  1. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 28, 2026
    NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring
  2. OpenTelemetrySep 25, 2026
    Exploring the OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Ecosystem

Go deeper

  1. ArizeOct 13, 2026
    EU AI Act compliance for AI agents: a practical engineering guide
  2. AWS DatabasesOct 13, 2026
    Monitor Amazon Aurora DSQL costs with the Aurora DSQL console and CloudWatch alarms
  3. JetBrainsOct 13, 2026
    CI/CD Pipeline Observability Tools: How to Choose the Right Setup
  4. OpenTelemetryOct 9, 2026
    OTel-Native by Design - Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
  5. PostmanOct 7, 2026
    Build, Deploy & Monitor AI Agents with Astropods
  6. AWS Big DataOct 6, 2026
    Monitoring MWAA-orchestrated ETL pipelines with Amazon OpenSearch Service
  7. ArizeOct 6, 2026
    What agent traces can tell you without an LLM judge
  8. ArizeOct 5, 2026
    How we benchmark AI agents and tools with Harbor and Arize Phoenix
  9. DatadogOct 5, 2026
    Process and route critical security logs to Exabeam with Observability Pipelines
  10. LaunchDarklyOct 3, 2026
    Machine Learning Pipeline Architecture: Components and Control Points
  11. AWS DevOpsOct 2, 2026
    Closed-loop incident response: connect AWS DevOps Agent to OpenSearch
  12. ArizeOct 2, 2026
    Claude’s hillclimb loop for AI agents: start with production traces
  13. DatadogOct 2, 2026
    Key metrics for monitoring Databricks
  14. DatadogOct 2, 2026
    Monitor Databricks with Datadog
  15. DatadogOct 2, 2026
    Databricks’ native monitoring resources
  16. AWS Machine LearningOct 1, 2026
    Building ambient agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: From event-driven signals to human-in-the-loop workflows
  17. PydanticOct 1, 2026
    Building production agents: the observability layer
  18. AWS Cloud OperationsOct 1, 2026
    Best practices for writing AWS DevOps Agent Skills
  19. DatadogOct 1, 2026
    Monitor warehouse data quality beyond pipeline health
  20. ArizeSep 30, 2026
    Building production-ready AI agents with Atlas Agent Engine and Arize AX
  21. PydanticSep 30, 2026
    Debugging production from your editor with the Logfire MCP server
  22. SnowflakeSep 29, 2026
    OpenTelemetry as an Enterprise Data Asset | Snowflake
  23. AWS Cloud OperationsSep 29, 2026
    Automate RCA across ServiceNow, Dynatrace and Slack with AWS DevOps Agent
  24. QdrantSep 29, 2026
    Managed Cloud Prometheus Monitoring
  25. AWS DevOpsSep 28, 2026
    How Property Finder automated incident management with AWS DevOps Agent
  26. AWS Machine LearningSep 28, 2026
    Implementing synthetic monitoring using Amazon Nova Act
  27. ValkeySep 28, 2026
    Monitoring Valkey with Prometheus
  28. Grafana LabsSep 24, 2026
    What if your agent's hallucinations had a budget? How to start using SLOs for agent behavior
  29. DatadogSep 24, 2026
    Using TypeSafe’s Jev for evals in Datadog Agent Observability
  30. TwilioSep 24, 2026
    How to Test and Fix Voice AI Agent Prompts with Twilio Conversation Relay and Cekura
  31. DatadogSep 22, 2026
    When users don’t click thumbs up: Inferring agent feedback from Datadog telemetry
  32. ValkeySep 22, 2026
    Valkey Metrics in Prometheus: redis_exporter and BetterDB
  33. LaunchDarklySep 21, 2026
    MLOps Solutions for Production Machine Learning
  34. DatabricksSep 19, 2026
    RADAR: Catch gray failures with anomaly detection
  35. OpenTelemetrySep 18, 2026
    Dual-exporting .NET metrics with OTLP and Prometheus
  36. CNCFSep 17, 2026
    OpenTelemetry everywhere: Migrating a metrics platform at scale
  37. monday.com EngineeringSep 1, 2026
    I built a monitor. Nearly 200 engineers turned it into a colleague.

Advanced

  1. LangChainOct 13, 2026
    Improving Deep Agents with harness engineering
  2. Razorpay EngineeringOct 13, 2026
    Inside Razorpay’s RTO Model: The Engineering Behind its ML Lifecycle
  3. DatadogOct 13, 2026
    How Datadog defines service criticality at scale
  4. APNIC BlogOct 11, 2026
    Seven years of IPv6 in production: Lessons from one million broadband subscribers
  5. New RelicOct 9, 2026
    How New Relic engineers reliability at scale
  6. Stack Overflow BlogOct 8, 2026
    Part 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneath
  7. HoneycombOct 7, 2026
    OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration for LLM Observability
  8. ArizeOct 2, 2026
    Prompt caching benchmark: high cache reuse doesn’t always mean lower cost
  9. eBPF FoundationOct 2, 2026
    Cloudflare’s eBPF Replatforming Part 4: Observability, Operations, and Reliability Improvements from eBPF
  10. ClickHouseOct 1, 2026
    How LinkedIn extended ClickHouse from distributed tracing to metric discovery and analytics
  11. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 1, 2026
    Multi-Tenant GPU Isolation: What Dedicated GPU Covers, and What It Doesn't
  12. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 30, 2026
    Tracing Agent Harness Behavior with NVIDIA NeMo Relay
  13. CNCFSep 30, 2026
    From 40 seconds to under 10: rebuilding incident detection on OpenTelemetry, Apache Kafka, and Apache Flink on Kubernetes
  14. DremioSep 25, 2026
    Monitoring Iceberg Table Health with Metrics Reports and Metadata Tables
  15. DatadogSep 23, 2026
    Teaching a 9B model to investigate production alerts
  16. Grafana LabsSep 21, 2026
    Grafana Alerting: Scale alert routing without scaling complexity using multiple notification policies
  17. HoneycombSep 21, 2026
    How Adaptive Tail Sampling Works in the OpenTelemetry Collector
  18. SentrySep 21, 2026
    Building Sentry's Laravel AI Integration

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