We Added Tracing and the Architecture Diagram Was Wrong
A client was confident about how their services talked to each other. Then we instrumented the system with OpenTelemetry and found out what was actually happening.
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We Instrumented Our LLM Calls and Found the Budget Leak
A client's AI features were burning through their OpenAI budget 3x faster than projected. Adding OpenTelemetry's GenAI semantic conventions revealed the problem wasn't what anyone expected.