2026-10-05¶
Handle sensitive data in OTel¶
The one and only Juraci Paixão Kröhling wrote Where Sensitive Data Hides in OpenTelemetry Pipelines, and How to Find It, a great hands-on guide providing you with all you need to tackle this important issue.
Atlassian OTel migration¶
Another excellent end-user report, this time by Atlassian: read OpenTelemetry everywhere: Migrating a metrics platform at scale by Iris Grace Endozo, Farzad Vazirnia and Albert Kerr.
Prometheus and OTel¶
The survey results are in! Check out what Dhruv Ahuja, Andrej Kiripolsky, Ana Muenz, and Arthur Sens published via the official OTel blog: Prometheus and OpenTelemetry interoperability in 2026.
OTel newsletter¶
The September 2026 edition of Datadog's OpenTelemetry newsletter is now available for you to peruse. Thanks for the detailed status updates!
Observability in the AI age¶
Observability For Humans and Agents in the AI Age by Severin Neumann and Nicolas Wörner is a nice article, sharing guidance and good practices.
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!