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Open-source, CNCF-hosted distributed tracing system, originally built at Uber, for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based architectures.
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A developer's write-up of running the outbox pattern in production finds the textbook loop breaks on error to preserve ordering, and never counts attempts. That combination jams forever.
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opentelemetry-instrumentation-dagster hooks Dagster's decorator factories from the standard OTel launcher, so every op and asset emits a span with no imports in the pipeline file. Kubernetes step Pods need the hook baked into the image.
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At KubeCon Europe, Whitney Lee and Viktor Farcic argued the developer's front door is now an agent. What follows is continuous ingestion over Git and Slack, plus a per-tool policy on what the agent may run without asking.
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A CNCF walkthrough routes workflow_run and workflow_job events into an OpenTelemetry Collector, so CI coverage depends on org admin access rather than on who remembered to add a tracing step.
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An agent that can read Prometheus and reach nothing else is a pattern worth copying. The auto-remediate button in the same dashboard is where the argument gets complicated.
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A four-core ARM box thrashed its page cache for hours while Kubernetes reported Running, ArgoCD reported Synced and Healthy, Helm exited zero and an admission policy passed.
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