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2026-09-21

OTTL graduation

OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL), an important OTel collector components building block, is in the process to graduate. If you can, provide your support via the respective GitHub issue and help spread the word.

Monitor OTel collector

Enabling Internal Telemetry in the OpenTelemetry Collector by Vivek Anandaraman is a nice hands-on piece on this topic.

JetBrains IDE

Nikita Dukin and Egor Klimov published Behind the Scenes: How the OpenTelemetry Plugin Maps Your Microservices in Real-Time, providing useful context.

Agent failure modes

In AI agent failure modes: the seven ways agents fail in production Pablo Pardo Garcia shares some interesting insights along with actionable advice.

OTel and eBPF

The one and only Yoshi Yamaguchi published Behind the Scenes of OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation, a practical deep dive into the inner workings, from the Kernel to context propagation. Thank you!

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!