Insights on observability, OpenTelemetry, and the AI era.

Debugging Kubernetes with Cursor and the Odigos MCP

From opaque checkout failures to a verified application fix using Cursor, Odigos, and dynamic instrumentation

MCP Based Auto Remediation: Davis AI to Odigos MCP Server and Back Again

How we wired incident detection to Odigos MCP so instrumentation deepens on problem open and reverts on close.

Instrumenting C++ Methods with Zero Code Changes

Capturing Custom C++ Methods with Odigos eBPF Instrumentation

Odigos Instrumentation Engines: Offering flexibility and choice in your observability approach

Introducing Continuous Profiling in Odigos: Low Overhead, Zero Extra Storage

Continuous profiling is now built into Odigos. Collect and visualize profiles directly in Odigos with a lightweight in-memory experience, and optionally export...

LLM Calls Are the New Blind Spot

Python services calling LLM providers in production typically show up in traces as a generic outgoing HTTP call to api.openai.com. No model, no tokens, no finis...

Your Incident Doesn't Fit in 1M Tokens

AI-powered incident analysis sounds compelling until you do the math. A 1M-token context window holds roughly 5,000 OpenTelemetry spans. A real incident generat...

Tracing Messaging Systems with Odigos

Using Odigos to capture end-to-end distributed traces in messaging frameworks to help debug application issues

After the AI Code Tsunami, "Traditional Observability" Won't Work

AI tools are generating code faster than engineers can understand. Your observability tools weren't built for that reality. Here’s what needs to change.

How Odigos Exposed a Hidden Database Lock

How I used Distributed Traces from Odigos, to troubleshoot an Application problem

Deploy a Production Grade Grafana Trace Facility in Minutes Supercharged by Odigos

Use an OSS Grafana Stack with Tempo and Prometheus to store and visualize Odigos traces

The Death of the Debug Log? How Observability is Replacing Old Habits

Why debug logs are no longer our go-to

Building Dynamic Data Streams with OpenTelemetry: Smarter Telemetry Routing with a Custom Connector

Why and how we built a custom OpenTelemetry connector and a three-layer pipeline to enable flexible, O(1) telemetry routing with Odigos Data Streams.

One UI to Rule Them All: Odigos Central for Multi-Cluster Observability

Introducing Odigos Central — a single on‑prem control plane and unified UI to manage observability across all clusters and VMs.

How Odigos Redefined Its Visual Identity to Reflect the Future of Observability

Why we moved from 2D to 3D, the geometry behind our new logo, and how Odigos’ visual system mirrors the depth of modern observability.

Resource Detection: The first step to enriching observability

Resource detection is a key step in adding business context to tracing in OpenTelemetry.

How Odigos Simplifies Authentication with Google Cloud Observability

Learn about new features in Odigos GCP Destinations

Seeing is Believing: Session Replays Meet Distributed Tracing

Stitching together session replays with backend traces using Odigos and HyperDX Browser SDK

New Actions CRD in Odigos (What you need to know)

Actions are moving to a new, centralized Kubernetes resource.

The Cronjob Conundrum

Instrumenting Cronjobs with Odigos: Part of the Blind Spot Series

Odigos Go Enterprise: The Future of Go Observability

The future of Go Observability using Odigos Enterprise Instrumentation

Building an Odigos Observability Pipeline with Kubernetes CRDs and CI/CD

Walkthrough of using CI/CD to add sources, destinations, rules, and actions to Odigos

Announcing Ruby Instrumentation in Odigos

Announcing Ruby Instrumentation in Odigos

Announcing PHP Instrumentation in Odigos

Announcing PHP Instrumentation in Odigos

What is eBPF?

How Odigos Uses It for Zero-Instrumentation Tracing

Solving the Pitfalls of Distributed Tracing in Real-World Microservices

Learn why distributed tracing often fails in production and how to fix common issues like missing traces, broken context, and performance overhead.

Overcoming OpenTelemetry Challenges in Microservices Without the Headache

Learn how to implement OpenTelemetry in microservices without the usual struggles

Zero Blind Spots: PostgreSQL & MySQL Observability with eBPF

Learn how to use eBPF to monitor MySQL and PostgreSQL databases

Introducing the OpenShift Operator

The Odigos Operator is now available for Red Hat OpenShift

Odigos is moving to a new container registry

Odigos images will now be hosted on regsitry.odigos.io

Odigos is now Red Hat OpenShift Certified!

Odigos component images are now Red Hat Certified and available to use.

The new Source of truth: introducing persistent, stateless instrumentation with Source objects

Learn about Source resources in Odigos

How Odigos Helps Debug Mysterious Delays in Microservices

Microservices architectures make debugging mysterious timeouts incredibly difficult. Odigos distributed tracing reveals the hidden connections between services...

Introducing the New Odigos User Interface (Beta)!

Experience the future of observability with the Odigos UI Beta. Featuring a sleek design, interactive visualizations, and enterprise-ready capabilities, this be...

Announcing the Public Beta of the New Odigos UI

Announcing the public beta of the new Odigos UI! Discover our redesigned, user-friendly interface, packed with powerful features and interactive visualizations...

eBPF based instrumentation

Originally a packet filter, eBPF now supports comprehensive observability, security, and performance optimization. By running custom programs directly in the ke...

Migrating from Proprietary Tools to OpenTelemetry with Odigos

This guide walks through migrating from proprietary observability tools to OpenTelemetry, covering each stage of the transition and best practices. Learn how Od...

Revolutionizing Database Internals Monitoring with eBPF and Real-Time Insights

Discover how Odigos revolutionizes database monitoring with eBPF technology. Gain real-time insights into MySQL and PostgreSQL performance by connecting client...

Odigos VM Agent: Simplified Distributed Tracing for Virtual Machines

Odigos VM Agent is a powerful tool that brings automatic, code-free distributed tracing to Linux virtual machines, simplifying observability for systemd-managed...

Deprecation Announcement: Odigos Helm Charts Repository

Announcing the deprecation of the Odigos Helm Charts repository. Learn how to switch to the new Helm repository. Follow our easy migration steps to ensure your...

Metrics and Tools for Effective Observability and Distributed Tracing in Distributed Systems

Discover the key metrics and tools every DevOps and SRE team needs for effective observability in distributed systems. Learn how to monitor latency, error rates...

The Essentials of Observability: Key Metrics and Tools You Should Be Using

Discover the Essentials of Observability: Key Metrics and Top Tools for Modern Applications. Learn how to optimize your microservices and distributed systems wi...

Odigos Raised $13M to Bring Distributed Traces to the Masses

Odigos Secures $13 Million in Funding to Revolutionize Distributed Tracing and Observability

The Future of eBPF: In-Person and Virtual Discussion & Lunch

Join us on September 10, 2024, for a hybrid event on eBPF’s future with insights from Odigos co-founder Eden Federman. Attend in Boston or online.

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry

A guide for experienced developers and those new to the industry in configuring and using OpenTelemetry.

Opentelemetry Trace Sampling

Using Odigos to simply sample opentelemetry traces

Introducing Actions: OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration Made Easy

An introduction to Actions, a new feature in Odigos that simplifies OpenTelemetry Collector configuration

Integrating manual with automatic instrumentation

This blog shares the results of our performance tests creating OpenTelemetry traces with eBPF-based automatic instrumentation vs traditional instrumentation

eBPF-Based Auto-Instrumentation Outperforms Manual Instrumentation

This blog shares the results of our performance tests creating OpenTelemetry traces with eBPF-based automatic instrumentation vs traditional instrumentation

Introduction to Log Pipelines

Introduction to log pipelines

New Odigos Website

Odigos Launches New Website with Enhanced Focus on Implementing Distributed Tracing

How we helped Hydrogen Pay Implement Distributed Tracing Instantly

Access Bank Case Study

How Keyval Automates the Deployment of Go Microservices with ko build

In this article, we will describe how we use the ko build tool to build and deploy keyval backend microservices.

Introducing the new Odigos UI

Introducing a new UI for Odigos that makes it easier to discover and instrument applications.

Distributed Traces: Unlocking Performance with Organizational Effort

In this article, we will discuss the organizational effort required to unlock the value of distributed traces.

Goodbye Sidecars: Go Instrumentation as a Device

Version v0.1.52 of Odigos removes the need for sidecars when instrumenting Go applications.

Faster and Better - Introducing the New Odigos Language Detector

Latest improvements to Odigos language detection.

Better application discovery with Kubernetes labels

Introducing a new way to discover applications in Odigos using Kubernetes labels.

Combining Odigos and Jaeger for instant distributed tracing

Making distributed tracing easy with Jaeger and Odigos

Sending OpenTelemetry data to AWS S3

This blog post will show you how to send OpenTelemetry data to Amazon Web Services S3

Automatic Instrumentation As A Kubernetes Virtual Device

This blog post will compare different ways to extend containers, and why Odigos use Kubernetes Device Plugins to extend containers.

Sending OpenTelemetry data to Google Cloud Storage

This blog post will show you how to send OpenTelemetry data to Google Cloud Storage using Odigos

Odigos Version v0.1.4

This blog will introduce Odigos version v0.1.4

Distributed Tracing in 2025: What the future holds

This blog will predict developments in distributed tracing that will accelerate its widespread adoption, vital to achieving end-to-end observability.

Odigos - allowing a choice between the 5 leading open-source observability backends

Effortless distributed tracing for Go applications

How Odigos do context propagation for Go applications

Managing collectors on K8s – why we chose the OpenTelemetry collector for Odigos

Collectors overview and why we chose the OpenTelemetry collector

How to Build an End to End Open Source Observability Solution on Kubernetes

Build Observability pipeline with Odigos, Tempo, Jaeger and Prometheus

Introducing Odigos!

An introduction to Odigos - an open source observability control plane