Observability

AWS introduced CloudWatch Omni, an off-console observability tool unifying application and AI-agent monitoring behind enterprise SSO, with an AI investigation agent.

Dash0 buys Berlin's Polar Signals to bring CUDA-aware continuous profiling and a new storage engine into its OpenTelemetry-native observability platform.

Grafana 13.2 brings a generally available shared query library, Git Sync support for GitHub Enterprise and webhook-based GitLab/BitBucket sync, and a public-preview view panel sidebar for viewers.

Raindrop released Workshop, a free local debugger that streams an AI agent's tokens, tool calls, and spans to a browser and lets Claude Code write and fix evals against the trace.

The CNCF announced OpenTelemetry's graduation on May 21, capping seven years of development and a merger of two rival projects into a unified observability standard with 12,000+ contributors.

Grafana Labs shipped version 13 at its annual conference in Barcelona, graduating dynamic dashboards and Git Sync to GA while delivering a rebuilt Loki that runs aggregation queries up to 10x faster.

The OpenTelemetry-native observability startup closes a $110M Series B at a $1B valuation, betting that AI agents will replace manual incident response.

The OpenTelemetry Profiling SIG has promoted its Profiles signal to public alpha, adding vendor-neutral continuous profiling alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Built on Elastic's donated eBPF agent, the new signal supports over a dozen language runtimes with minimal overhead.

Google Cloud now accepts OTLP-format metrics in Cloud Monitoring and offers a fully managed OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline for GKE, joining a broader industry shift toward vendor-neutral observability driven by open standards.