Observability
5 posts — newest first.
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Tracing the agent loop: OpenTelemetry's GenAI conventions, read like an SRE
Your agent is a distributed system wearing a chat interface. OpenTelemetry's GenAI conventions make it debuggable — what v1.41 covers and what's moving.
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The AI-native SRE stack — a 2026 reference guide
A practitioner's map of the AI-native SRE stack in 2026: six layers from telemetry to bounded remediation, and an honest read on where AI pays off.
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Observability for AI systems — what changes when your service calls an LLM
Golden signals miss the failure that pages you: a confident, well-formed, wrong answer. What AI observability adds — context as a span, quality as a signal.
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Harness engineering: the third phase of AI maturity
Agent = Model + Harness, and in 2026 the harness is the bottleneck. What a production-grade SRE harness contains, with a ~40-line reference implementation.
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Observability and incident response — the SRE basics
A primer on observability (logs, metrics, traces) and incident response (roles, severities, blameless postmortems) — the disciplines every SRE team runs.