Severin Neumann

🗳️ The 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election is underway! If you haven't voted yet, there's still time to help shape the future of the project. ✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/ufu6qP0 🗳️ Vote here: buff.ly/r5f4A8t Voting closes Oct 28, end of day Anywhere on Earth (Oct 29, 11:59 UTC).

Please vote in the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee election! If you are a member of standing you can now cast your vote until 28 October 2026 end of day AoE. vote.heliosvoting.org

Do you use #OpenTelemetry’s registry or lists of vendors, distributions, integrations, and adopters? We’re reviewing their future and want to hear from you. Our latest blog explains how to share your feedback. Tell us which pages you use and what you’d miss if they went away. buff.ly/xDn4PoG

Boring news everyone: I built yet another CLI! 🦕 Every observability vendor has one, and the secret sauce is the backend anyway. So a CLI is ... boring! Which makes it perfect to build with AI: bronto.io/blog/boring-...

The OpenTelemetry Election Committee is excited to announce the final list of candidates for the 2026 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee election: buff.ly/pZYzHuM

@anthropic.com announced earlier this week that you can now export Claude Platform traces via the magic of #OpenTelemetry. Curious how to get those traces into Bronto? It's so easy our step-by-step video is only 30 seconds!

This post is the first announcement test for a new Hugo-to-Buffer workflow. The AI-generated walkthrough explains how GitHub Actions sends new blog posts to LinkedIn, Mastodon, and Bluesky. svrnm.com/blog/sharing...

✨ OpenTelemetry's vendor neutrality at work ✨ Claude Platform's OTel support was announced a day ago, with some partners who had a head start to announce their integration. But this is OTel, so everyone can join! We tested it, documented it and now support it:-) bronto.io/blog/sending...

Got years of @grafana dashboards you don't want to rebuild when you switch? Keep them. Here's how Gary Nicholls used AI to build our Grafana plugin, from a blank directory to a working prototype in a few hours: bronto.io/blog/how-i-used-ai-to-quickly-build-a-grafana-data-source-plugin-for-bronto

We'll be at #SREcon in Dublin next week, talking about observability for the agentic era! Stop by Booth #4580 to say hi to the team and grab a Bronto plushie to take home.

Did a short video on compy, my macOS-managed OpenTelemetry collector:-) Repo: github.com/bronto-commu...

I don't need PowerPoint or Google Slides anymore!:-) Took the time to write down my current workflow on how I build slides with Slidev and a LLM. By now I build my last five presentations that way and I am overall happy with how it works and what you can do! Read it here: svrnm.com/blog/creatin...

Observability data is multidimensional, changing over time, and often growing at high volumes. We built a polymorphic database that can adapt to optimize how this data is stored to ensure fast search and record efficiency. Read how we designed it here: bronto.io/blog/brontod...

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) can now add trace and span IDs to the logs your services already write. This blog post explains how it works and what to check before rollout: buff.ly/yFVZ0zP

TIL, this is a key feautre in GitHub to ensure that coding agent and code review agent play along well. Works far better than asking them in their rules file to do so.

Finally some real help cleaning at home, team Bronto+Henry!

Managing my local #OpenTelemetry collector from my menu bar now, thanks to compy, a helpful wrapper I asked a LLM to build 🔭 github.com/bronto-commu...

The TRACEPARENT environment variable is not only used in your CI/CD pipeline, a coding agent can use it to propagate context to your tools. Did a short video on it:-)

I'll be at HumanX in Amsterdam next week, giving out little brontos and talking about observability:-)

Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation. The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable. buff.ly/cKwKa7v

docker buildx history trace 🤯

Had some fun asking an LLM to help me compile an analysis of the 600+ blog posts that use the „it’s 2am…“ (or 3am) cliché: its-2am-analysis.vercel.app

My phone just autocorrected kubernetes to Kinderbetreuung ... feels like an accurate translation somehow 🫠

Gentoo + OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation = 💖

Life Hack: use passphrases to improve your writing skills! I learned to write some words properly by having them in my phrases!

The OpenTelemetry Demo 3.0 is out, and yes, we broke it! In this blog post we share the highlights of what changed in the 3.0 release. And if you're a vendor using the Demo to showcase your OTel support, here's your call to action: Please update your instructions. buff.ly/gSt6uFX

Heading to Yokohama next week? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan runs July 28-30, and we've collected every OpenTelemetry session in one place. Community Day kicks things off on the 28th. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/ku...

📢 OpenTelemetry community: all Zoom meetings are moving to the LFX Project Control Center. Please update your calendars. Issues or questions? Comment on the tracking issue or ask in #opentelemetry on CNCF Slack. 🔗 github.com/open-telemet...

"I am not a native English speaker and that’s why I used AI to answer your questions." A letter to all first-time contributors: svrnm.com/blog/dear-fi...

Go Compile-Time Instrumentation just hit v1! 🎉 Add OpenTelemetry to your Go services with zero code changes. Swap go build for otelc go build and get automatic instrumentation for your app, dependencies & the standard library. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/go...

OTel's Spring Boot starter now supports declarative config (2.26.0): the full SDK YAML schema inside application.yaml, under one `otel:` key. Try it out: opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/sp...

What a great video about notifications and alerts. While @mskayyali.com addresses notifications on phones with it, there is so much to learn for any kind of alerting, including what we do in the Observability Space. A must watch!

Calling Dart & Flutter developers! There's a push to bring officially maintained OpenTelemetry support to Dart and Flutter and they're looking for contributors to help make it happen. Interested in shaping observability for Dart? buff.ly/YFfwlUJ #OpenTelemetry #Flutter #Dart

#OpenTelemetry is a #CNCF graduated project From OpenCensus and OpenTracing to today, this project has been a community effort from the start. Thank you to everyone who contributed code, docs, specs, reviews, feedback, and end-user experiences. This milestone belongs to you. buff.ly/SSE3ct3

I made an observation the other day, that many open source repositories provide an AGENTS(dot)md, but not something equivalent for humans. I wrote about it, and came to the conclusion that, there is no need for HUMANS(dot)md svrnm.com/blog/humans....

It looks like human-to-human key signing parties will soon come back into fashion.

If hexagons are the bestagons, are metrics the bestrics? svrnm.com/blog/metrics...

A lab and a blog post about turning traces into helpful insights about your SQL queries: something I worked on for the last few weeks is finally published on the Causely blog and on GitHub, for you to use and copy:-)

See how Causely continuously builds an always-on service graph (services, infra, and data flows) and combines it with traces, metrics, and logs to pinpoint the exact regression, its blast radius, and the causal path — with clear, explainable reasoning in seconds.

Hope to see you all at Unplugged (or FOSDEM?)

Join us in Brussels on Monday, February 2, 2026—the day after FOSDEM—for OTel Unplugged EU 2026, an unconference shaped by and for the OpenTelemetry community. events.humanitix.com/otelunplugge...