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Last9 Named a Gartner® Cool Vendor in AI for SRE and Observability

Gartner recognizes Last9 in their latest Cool Vendor report for unified telemetry and agentic SDK—moving teams from reactive monitoring to proactive ops.

Nishant Modak
Nishant Modak
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OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) Hits Alpha

OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) Hits Alpha

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is now in alpha, bringing protocol-level telemetry capture without code changes or restarts.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
OpenTelemetry Metrics in Quarkus Explained

OpenTelemetry Metrics in Quarkus Explained

Understand how to enable, export, and extend OpenTelemetry metrics in your Quarkus application with practical examples.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
How Prometheus Exporters Work With OpenTelemetry

How Prometheus Exporters Work With OpenTelemetry

Learn how Prometheus exporters expose OTLP metrics in Prometheus format, making it easier to scrape OpenTelemetry data.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
What Are AI Guardrails

What Are AI Guardrails

Learn the core concepts of AI guardrails and how they create safer, more reliable, and well-structured AI systems in production.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices

Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices

A practical guide to setting up Grafana Tempo, configuring key components, and understanding how to use tracing across your services.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
OTel Updates: Declarative Config — A Steadier Way to Configure OpenTelemetry SDKs

OTel Updates: Declarative Config — A Steadier Way to Configure OpenTelemetry SDKs

Declarative Config brings structure to OTel SDKs with clean, rule-based settings that stay consistent across every environment.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

Sidecar or agent? See when per-service isolation beats node-level efficiency, and how gateways fit into a scalable OTel pipeline.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
OTel Updates: Consistent Probability Sampling Fixes Fragmented Traces

OTel Updates: Consistent Probability Sampling Fixes Fragmented Traces

One sampling decision, propagated everywhere. OpenTelemetry's Consistent Probability Sampling fixes fragmented traces across services.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

Understand how OpenTelemetry Spans capture, connect, and explain every operation in your distributed system for deeper visibility.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi