"Prove AI is a self-hosted solution designed to accelerate GenAI performance monitoring. It allows AI engineers to capture, customize, and monitor GenAI metrics on their own terms, without vendor lock-in. Built on OpenTelemetry, Prove AI connects to existing OpenTelemetry pipelines and surfaces meaningful metrics quickly.
Key features include a unified web-based interface for consolidating performance metrics like token throughput, latency distributions, and service health. It enables faster debugging, improved time-to-metric, and better measurement of GenAI ROI. The platform is open-source, free to deploy, and offers full control over telemetry data."
Key features include a unified web-based interface for consolidating performance metrics like token throughput, latency distributions, and service health. It enables faster debugging, improved time-to-metric, and better measurement of GenAI ROI. The platform is open-source, free to deploy, and offers full control over telemetry data."
Distributed tracing is crucial for modern observability, offering richer context than logs. However, the volume of tracing data can be overwhelming. Sampling addresses this by selectively retaining data, with two main approaches: head sampling (deciding upfront) and tail sampling (deciding after collecting all spans). Head sampling is simpler but can miss localized issues. Tail sampling, while more accurate, is complex to implement at scale, requiring buffering, stateful processing, and potentially impacting system resilience. Furthermore, sampling inherently affects the accuracy of RED metrics (request rate, error rate, duration), necessitating metric materialization *before* sampling.
This article details building end-to-end observability for LLM applications using FastAPI and OpenTelemetry. It emphasizes a code-first approach, manually designing traces, spans, and semantic attributes to capture the full lifecycle of LLM-powered requests. The guide advocates for a structured approach to tracing RAG workflows, focusing on clear span boundaries, safe metadata capture (hashing prompts/responses), token usage tracking, and integration with observability backends like Jaeger, Grafana Tempo, or specialized LLM platforms. It highlights the importance of understanding LLM behavior beyond traditional infrastructure metrics.
Agoda engineers developed API Agent, a system with zero code and zero deployments that enables a single Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to connect to internal REST or GraphQL APIs. The system is designed to reduce the operational overhead of managing multiple APIs with distinct schemas and authentication methods, allowing teams to query services through AI assistants without building individual MCP servers for each API.
Google Cloud has announced native support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) in its Cloud Trace service, allowing developers to send trace data directly using OTLP and eliminating the need for vendor-specific exporters. This includes increased storage limits for attributes and spans.
The company's transition from fragmented observability tools to a unified system using OpenTelemetry and OneUptime dramatically improved incident response times, reducing MTTR from 41 to 9 minutes. By correlating logs, metrics, and traces through structured logging and intelligent sampling, they eliminated much of the noise and confusion that previously slowed root cause analysis. The shift also reduced the number of dashboards engineers needed to check per incident and significantly lowered the percentage of incidents with unknown causes.
Key practices included instrumenting once with OpenTelemetry, enforcing cardinality limits, and archiving raw data for future analysis. The move away from 100% trace capture and over-instrumentation helped manage data volume while maintaining visibility into anomalies. This transformation emphasized that effective observability isn't about collecting more data, but about designing correlated signals that support intentional diagnosis and reduce cognitive load.
Key practices included instrumenting once with OpenTelemetry, enforcing cardinality limits, and archiving raw data for future analysis. The move away from 100% trace capture and over-instrumentation helped manage data volume while maintaining visibility into anomalies. This transformation emphasized that effective observability isn't about collecting more data, but about designing correlated signals that support intentional diagnosis and reduce cognitive load.
A guide to building a robust logging system in Python, covering structured logging, log levels, handlers, formatters, filters, and integrating logging with modern observability practices.
This article compares three telemetry pipeline solutions – Cribl, Edge Delta, and DIY OpenTelemetry – based on scalability, performance, data management, intelligence, and cost. It details the strengths and weaknesses of each approach to help organizations choose the best solution for their observability and security data needs.
Traceloop's observability tool for LLM applications is now generally available. The company also announced a $6.1 million seed funding round. The platform extends OpenTelemetry to provide better observability for LLM applications, offering insights into model behavior and facilitating experimentation.
Edge Delta announces its new MCP Server, an open standard for streamlining communication between AI models and external data sources. It enables intelligent telemetry data analysis, adaptive pipelines, and effortless cross-tool orchestration directly within your IDE.
Edge Delta’s MCP Server acts as a bridge between developer tools and the Edge Delta platform, enabling generative AI to be integrated into observability workflows. Key benefits include:
* **Instant Root Cause Analysis:** Quickly identify the causes of errors using logs, metrics, and probable root causes.
* **Adaptive Pipelines:** AI-driven suggestions for optimizing telemetry pipeline configurations.
* **Effortless Orchestration:** Seamless integration of Edge Delta anomalies with other tools like Slack and AWS KB.
The server is built on Go and requires minimal authentication (Org ID + API Token). It can be easily integrated into IDEs with a simple configuration. The author anticipates that, despite current limitations like context window size and latency, this technology represents a significant step forward, similar to the impact of early algorithmic breakthroughs.
Edge Delta’s MCP Server acts as a bridge between developer tools and the Edge Delta platform, enabling generative AI to be integrated into observability workflows. Key benefits include:
* **Instant Root Cause Analysis:** Quickly identify the causes of errors using logs, metrics, and probable root causes.
* **Adaptive Pipelines:** AI-driven suggestions for optimizing telemetry pipeline configurations.
* **Effortless Orchestration:** Seamless integration of Edge Delta anomalies with other tools like Slack and AWS KB.
The server is built on Go and requires minimal authentication (Org ID + API Token). It can be easily integrated into IDEs with a simple configuration. The author anticipates that, despite current limitations like context window size and latency, this technology represents a significant step forward, similar to the impact of early algorithmic breakthroughs.
