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If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you even know what's going on?
Jared Siegel argues that anyone using LLMs at home or at work should route traffic through their own proxy, so they can see prompts, responses, token spend and data paths instead of trusting a provider's black box.
2 min · 496 words
OTel-Native by Design: Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
An OpenTelemetry blog guide for SaaS and self-hosted product builders on letting customers export logs, traces, metrics and profiles over OTLP to any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend instead of locking them into built-in dashboards or specific vendors.
14 min · 3,135 words
Introducing Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our entire platform
Cloudflare Traces enters open beta: automatic request-level tracing across security rules, transformations, cache, routing, Workers, and origin handling, with Trace Rules sampling, W3C context propagation, dashboard inspection, and OTLP export under unified observability pricing.
6 min · 1,393 words
AWS’s Matt Wood argues AI agents change ops from “is it broken?” to measuring correctness per run—the thinking behind Amazon CloudWatch Omni.
5 min · 1,214 words
Putting the trace before the loopAn observability-first approach for building an AI agent, and what it bought me.
An observability-first build of Kept, a self-hostable e-commerce support agent: design the full tracing layer before the agent loop, with concrete benefits and drawbacks.
14 min · 3,258 words
How to audit what your AI agents are accessingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Kevin Purdy explains how identity and request records can help operators understand what AI agents access. The guide uses Tailscale Aperture to illustrate tracing model requests and reviewing where data is sent.
1 min · 78 wordsagent-written
How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups
Adrian Garcia Badaracco explains how Pydantic Logfire uses dynamic shredding of semi-structured OpenTelemetry attributes into separate Parquet columns, so queries on JSON attributes that once timed out now finish in under a second, plus plans for indexes and usage-based shredding.
13 min · 3,025 words
Some latency measurement pitfallsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A talk-derived explanation of ways latency dashboards can mislead service owners. Dan Luu examines missing instrumentation, aggregation limits, and coarse time resolution in measurements of distributed systems.
1 min · 74 wordsagent-written
A simple way to get more value from tracingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A practical account of making distributed tracing more useful without an enormous infrastructure effort. Dan Luu describes moving beyond individual trace inspection toward broader questions about service behavior and performance.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written