2026-08-31¶

End-user o11y insights¶

In Fueling the AI SRE: How monday.com Standardized Observability for 600+ Services, Jacek Płonka shares interesting insights on their journey, resulting in great tips, ranging from technial to organizational practices.

Vendor lock-in¶

The one and only Juraci Paixão Kröhling wrote What's changed about OpenTelemetry vendor lock-in since 2024, an excellent source if you're evaluating and/or planning ahead.

JetBrains and OTel¶

OpenTelemetry Comes to IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand, PyCharm, and WebStorm by Egor Klimov introduces support for OpenTelemetry in JetBrains offerings. Congrats on launching this!

OpAMP control plane¶

Telemetry agent fleet management is going mainstream and with it, support for OpAMP is growing. Read about the most recent addition to the ecosystem in Why We Built Ampbase.

Production understanding¶

The always well-informed Andrew Mallaband shared Production Understanding Is Becoming a Claim... Here Are the Tests It Must Pass, providing you with actionable input for your own tests.

That was it for this edition of the o11y newsletter. Feel free to share news items with me via Bluesky DM. Stay safe and hope to see you around next week!