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"AI-first" is easy to say and hard to prove. At OpenObserve we ship two AI features to users - O2 Assistant and the AI SRE - and run our own engineering shop the same way, with DocGen writing our docs and the Council of Agents writing and healing our end-to-end tests. This is the story of moving both out of "a human runs this locally" and into CI, where they now fire on their own: giving agents a browser, an ingestion API, and a real running instance so they can build, seed, click, and verify the tedious work instead of asking a person to grind through it.
A comprehensive comparison of the best log analysis tools in 2026, covering search, pattern detection, anomaly detection, and pipeline capabilities for engineering and SRE teams.
Compare the top 10 Kubernetes monitoring tools in 2026, including OpenObserve, Prometheus, Datadog, and more. Features, cost, and use cases for DevOps and SRE teams.
A producer-side guide to instrumenting your own MCP server with OpenTelemetry: tracing tools/call, propagating context via _meta, and deriving RED metrics.
Instrument Claude Code with OpenTelemetry, ship usage and cost data to OpenObserve, then query it back from Claude Code via the OpenObserve MCP server.
Learn how to redact PII from LLM telemetry using OpenObserve's SDR, VRL pipelines, and OTel Collector — keeping traces debuggable while staying GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA compliant.
Trace, meter, and log Claude Agent SDK agents with OpenTelemetry: tool calls, MCP servers, extended thinking, and cost, all correlated in OpenObserve.
Trace Amazon Bedrock model calls, Bedrock Agents, and AgentCore with OpenTelemetry's gen_ai.* conventions (v1.41), then track token cost in dollars in OpenObserve.
A practical comparison of the 10 best microservices monitoring tools in 2026, including OpenObserve, Grafana LGTM, Datadog, Dynatrace, and more. Find the right fit for your stack.
Learn what microservices monitoring is, the 3 pillars of observability, and why OpenObserve is the best open-source tool for monitoring microservices in 2026. 140x lower storage costs, unified logs, metrics, and traces.
We streamed 1.1 TB of Kubernetes-format log data to both Elasticsearch and OpenObserve simultaneously on identical AWS hardware. A detailed performance benchmarking and comparison of storage, CPU, RAM, and query performance.
Same ~2TB of data, same count query, same querier config — two parameter changes took a Tantivy query from 49 seconds to 2 seconds. Learn how raising compact file size and enabling footer cache drove a 25× speedup by slashing S3 requests from 10,000+ to ~600.
OpenObserve now supports Terraform for infrastructure-as-code deployments, Bring Your Own Bucket for full control over your data storage, and ships targeted UX improvements across the service catalog, traces view, and log correlation.
Stop tab-switching at 3AM. Wire trace_id into logs and exemplars into metrics so you can pivot from alert to root cause in seconds, not hours.
Learn how to use OpenObserve's RUM source map feature to transform cryptic minified stack traces into readable, debuggable code with original filenames, line numbers, and function names. Covers setup, CI/CD integration, and troubleshooting.
A working pipeline for monitoring Kubernetes logs at scale: the openobserve-collector Helm chart for the fast path, or Fluent Bit + OpenTelemetry Collector for full control. Helm configs, multi-cluster routing, retention math.
Elasticsearch was built for search, not logs. Learn how to migrate your ELK log pipeline to OpenObserve using OTel Collector or Fluent Bit.
A practical on-call runbook template built for SREs and on-call engineers. Includes a 5-phase response framework, first-5-minutes checklist, and AI-assisted debugging with OpenObserve MCP.
How to make AI agents observable in production: OTel instrumentation, telemetry backends, cost tracking, and trace analysis.
How to monitor n8n workflows with Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry tracing using OpenObserve. Covers self-hosted n8n and instrumenting services that call n8n webhooks.
A comprehensive list and comparison of observability backends that support OpenTelemetry and OTLP, covering open-source, commercial, and cloud-native options.
