Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 28/09/2026Finally some real help cleaning at home, team Bronto+Henry! 010
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 24/09/2026Managing my local #OpenTelemetry collector from my menu bar now, thanks to compy, a helpful wrapper I asked a LLM to build 🔭 github.com/bronto-commu... 100
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 22/09/2026The TRACEPARENT environment variable is not only used in your CI/CD pipeline, a coding agent can use it to propagate context to your tools. Did a short video on it:-) 020
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 18/09/2026I'll be at HumanX in Amsterdam next week, giving out little brontos and talking about observability:-) 010
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 14/09/2026Help us stabilize environment variable context propagation. The OTel Specification now has a release candidate for environment variables as context propagation carriers. We want feedback before we mark it Stable. buff.ly/cKwKa7vopentelemetry.ioHelp us stabilize environment variable context propagationA trace does not always cross a network boundary. A workflow runner starts a shell, the shell launches a build tool, and the build tool starts test processes. Batch and data-processing systems create… 165
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 14/08/2026Had some fun asking an LLM to help me compile an analysis of the 600+ blog posts that use the „it’s 2am…“ (or 3am) cliché: its-2am-analysis.vercel.appits-2am-analysis.vercel.appIt's 2am, you have read this post604 DevOps and SRE posts reach for that night anyway — 399 of them in the first line, and 18 independently chose 2:47am. Then we asked an LLM for 100 openings of its own. 000
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 13/08/2026My phone just autocorrected kubernetes to Kinderbetreuung ... feels like an accurate translation somehow 🫠 130
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 03/08/2026Gentoo + OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation = 💖 011
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 28/07/2026Life Hack: use passphrases to improve your writing skills! I learned to write some words properly by having them in my phrases! 000
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 28/07/2026The OpenTelemetry Demo 3.0 is out, and yes, we broke it! In this blog post we share the highlights of what changed in the 3.0 release. And if you're a vendor using the Demo to showcase your OTel support, here's your call to action: Please update your instructions. buff.ly/gSt6uFXopentelemetry.ioWe broke the OTel demoIf you’ve been running the Demo for some time, you may have seen a couple of structural changes lately, and you may even have gotten mad about things not working as expected. We feel your pain and we… 072
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 24/07/2026Heading to Yokohama next week? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan runs July 28-30, and we've collected every OpenTelemetry session in one place. Community Day kicks things off on the 28th. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/ku...opentelemetry.ioOpenTelemetry @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan takes place July 28-30, 2026, in Yokohama, Japan. Register today to join us! Here are all the OpenTelemetry-related sessions, up to date at the time of writing. Session… 021
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 22/07/2026📢 OpenTelemetry community: all Zoom meetings are moving to the LFX Project Control Center. Please update your calendars. Issues or questions? Comment on the tracking issue or ask in #opentelemetry on CNCF Slack. 🔗 github.com/open-telemet...github.comMigration of Zoom meetings to Linux Foundation Project Control Center · Issue #3548 · open-telemetry/communityThe CNCF has reached out to us to migrate our existing Zoom meetings to Linux Foundation Project Control Center. Extract of the message received: We are reaching out regarding the global deprecatio... 142
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 17/07/2026"I am not a native English speaker and that’s why I used AI to answer your questions." A letter to all first-time contributors: svrnm.com/blog/dear-fi...svrnm.comDear first-time contributorI am not a native English speaker and that’s why I used AI to answer your questions. I keep seeing this, or a version of it, on issues and PRs. Reading it over and over again, especially when written ... 131
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 17/07/2026Go Compile-Time Instrumentation just hit v1! 🎉 Add OpenTelemetry to your Go services with zero code changes. Swap go build for otelc go build and get automatic instrumentation for your app, dependencies & the standard library. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/go...opentelemetry.ioAnnouncing v1 of OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time InstrumentationIf you write Java, Python, Node.js, or .NET, you have been able to add OpenTelemetry to an application without editing its code for years: attach an agent at startup and telemetry starts flowing. Go… 0157
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 15/07/2026OTel's Spring Boot starter now supports declarative config (2.26.0): the full SDK YAML schema inside application.yaml, under one `otel:` key. Try it out: opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/sp...opentelemetry.ioThe Voyage of a Small Environment VariableThe OpenTelemetry Spring Boot starter gained declarative-configuration support starting in version 2.26.0 — the same YAML schema the Java agent introduced in late 2025, now embedded inside… 043
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 03/07/2026What a great video about notifications and alerts. While @mskayyali.com addresses notifications on phones with it, there is so much to learn for any kind of alerting, including what we do in the Observability Space. A must watch! 010
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 30/06/2026Calling Dart & Flutter developers! There's a push to bring officially maintained OpenTelemetry support to Dart and Flutter and they're looking for contributors to help make it happen. Interested in shaping observability for Dart? buff.ly/YFfwlUJ #OpenTelemetry #Flutter #Dartopentelemetry.ioCall for Contributors: OpenTelemetry for Dart and FlutterWhy OpenTelemetry for Dart and Flutter? Dart is a full-stack language and the language of Flutter, one of the most popular frameworks for building cross-platform applications. Data shows over 20% of… 112
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 21/05/2026#OpenTelemetry is a #CNCF graduated project From OpenCensus and OpenTracing to today, this project has been a community effort from the start. Thank you to everyone who contributed code, docs, specs, reviews, feedback, and end-user experiences. This milestone belongs to you. buff.ly/SSE3ct3opentelemetry.ioOpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated ProjectToday, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that OpenTelemetry has graduated. Graduation is an important milestone for the project and reflects the strength of the OpenTelemetry… 0259
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 03/03/2026I made an observation the other day, that many open source repositories provide an AGENTS(dot)md, but not something equivalent for humans. I wrote about it, and came to the conclusion that, there is no need for HUMANS(dot)md svrnm.com/blog/humans....svrnm.comNo need for HUMANS.mdA while back I was exploring an open source project I was using, and interested in contributing to, as it provided capabilities I needed but missed some additional ones I wanted to have. Naturally, I ... 010
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 28/02/2026From the Norwegian Consumer Council: „The Enshittificator“ vimeo.com/1168468796?f... — make it shitty 😭vimeo.comThe EnshittificatorDigital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved… 121
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 13/02/2026It looks like human-to-human key signing parties will soon come back into fashion. 000
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 10/02/2026If hexagons are the bestagons, are metrics the bestrics? svrnm.com/blog/metrics...svrnm.comAre metrics the bestrics?“What’s your favorite telemetry signal” has been the last question of the Humans of OpenTelemetry series for the last few years. At KubeCon EU 2024 my answer to this was “profiling, because I think th... 000
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 04/02/2026A lab and a blog post about turning traces into helpful insights about your SQL queries: something I worked on for the last few weeks is finally published on the Causely blog and on GitHub, for you to use and copy:-) 010
Reposted by Severin NeumannCausely @causely.ai · 27/01/2026See how Causely continuously builds an always-on service graph (services, infra, and data flows) and combines it with traces, metrics, and logs to pinpoint the exact regression, its blast radius, and the causal path — with clear, explainable reasoning in seconds. 011
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 21/01/2026The latest Annual Cloud Native Survey by @cncf.io gave an update on adoption for projects, and of course I checked were the numbers for @opentelemetry.io : Close to 50% in production! This is an impressive result, I am really proud of what our community has accomplished! www.cncf.io/wp-content/u...cncf.io 120
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 19/12/2025Join us in Brussels on Monday, February 2, 2026—the day after FOSDEM—for OTel Unplugged EU 2026, an unconference shaped by and for the OpenTelemetry community. events.humanitix.com/otelunplugge...events.humanitix.comOTel Unplugged EU 2026A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future. 040
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 18/12/2025svrnm.com/blog/can-you...svrnm.comCan you get Observability without Telemetry?People always say there are no stupid questions, and then you read the title of this post and you’re not so sure anymore. You start to doubt my sanity, or at least suspect that I’m a troll. However, a... 022
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 17/12/2025Not sure why I was expecting a slide being added directly, when I clicked the Copilot button from within PowerPoint and asked it to add a slide based on the prompt I provided ... 000
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 04/12/2025🔥 Mark your calendars! OTel Unplugged EU 2026 is happening Feb 2 in Brussels (day after FOSDEM) No slides, just real technical conversations with the #OpenTelemetry community. You pick the topics. Limited space! Register: buff.ly/aaUyQsx 🔄 Please repost to help us reach the community! 022
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 01/12/2025The #OpenTelemetry project is deprecating the #Zipkin exporter specification in favor of Zipkin's OTLP ingestion support. Learn more about migrating in our latest blog post. opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/de...opentelemetry.ioDeprecating Zipkin ExporterThe OpenTelemetry project is deprecating the Zipkin exporter specification in favor of Zipkin’s OTLP ingestion support. Thank you to all Zipkin contributors for helping OpenTelemetry reach this… 051
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 01/12/2025🦾 Meet agenticc, the llm-powered C compiler, that agentically compiles your C code into an AI-powered application! 🦿👇 github.com/svrnm/agenti... 000
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 21/11/2025Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15304arxiv.org 010
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 21/11/2025"And if your OSS contributions do lead to your dream job, like they did for me, remember to balance the scales one last time. Pass on your knowledge to new contributors and especially to new tech writers. Pay it forward." Tiffany Hrabusa at @writethedocs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqry...youtube.comTiffany Hrabusa - A beautiful arrangement: Gaining experience & giving back through open source docsYouTube video by Write the Docs 002
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 20/11/2025youtube.com/shorts/Busz5...youtube.comHow this open source project broke MinecraftYouTube video by GitHub 000
Reposted by Severin NeumannCausely @causely.ai · 19/11/2025Dallas, you were awesome. 🤘 Thanks to everyone who came by the Causely booth at @grafana.bsky.social #ObservabilityCON On the Road yesterday! Great convos, great energy, and, of course, great swag. 🦈 021
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 17/11/2025What makes OTel Unplugged different? No fixed talks — you set the agenda. ➕ Attendee-driven breakouts ➕ Maintainer & end-user discussions ➕ End-of-day OpenTelemetry roadmap session 📍 Sparks Meeting (Brussels) | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 🎟️ Register:buff.lyOTel Unplugged EU 2026A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future. 073
Reposted by Severin NeumannCausely @causely.ai · 17/11/2025DevOps. SRE. Platform Engineering. Same goals, different disciplines, but the nuances matter. This post aims to clear things up, helping teams align on who owns what and how the pieces fit together 🧩 www.causely.ai/blog/sre-dev...causely.aiThe Cost of Confusing SRE, DevOps, and Platform EngineeringConfusing SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering may work at 20 engineers, but at 200 it creates chaos. Here’s why the distinctions matter and how to scale them effectively. 021
Reposted by Severin NeumannChris Aniszczyk @cra.dev · 13/11/2025#kubecon #cloudnativecon job board is busy! 062
Reposted by Severin Neumannnatali @natali.rip · 12/11/2025the cisco ospo reunion we all wanted @auggie.dev @svrnm.com 081
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 05/11/2025Last call: OpenTelemetry Community Awards nominations close soon! If someone helped you ship, scale, or learn this year, nominate them now:buff.ly2025 OpenTelemetry Community AwardsOpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code,… 073
Reposted by Severin NeumannCausely @causely.ai · 31/10/2025🎃 Happy Halloween from Causely 👻 In a world haunted by false positives and spurious alerts, one terrifying truth remains: Correlation is futile. Our favorite Shark-Of-9 knows it too: you can’t guess your way to reliability! Stay spooky. Stay causal. 011
Reposted by Severin NeumannCausely @causely.ai · 30/10/2025Calling all #KubeCon friends! We’re co-hosting a 🍻Happy Hour with @clickhouse.com + Buf! Good drinks, great people, better reliability. RSVP → luma.com/56t729bb + See how we integrate with ClickStack to find the why behind system slowdowns: www.causely.ai/blog/causely...luma.comKubeCon Happy Hour in Atlanta · LumaJoin us for a casual evening of networking, dinner, and drinks with the KubeCon community! After a full day at KubeCon and co-located events like Observability… 021
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 29/10/2025🗳️ The 2025 OpenTelemetry GC Election is underway! If you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time to help shape the future of the project. ✅ Check eligibility: buff.ly/6xn7MYb 🗳️ Vote here: buff.ly/tQUXYHt Voting closes Oct 30, noon (UTC) — don’t miss your chance to have a say! 023
Reposted by Severin NeumannCausely @causely.ai · 27/10/20251 high-stakes migration, 0 downtime. Learn how Quantum Metric validated every stage of a Google Kubernetes Engine Dataplane V2 cutover, all while running at 30k+ RPS. #GKE #Dataplane #Kubernetes #K8s www.causely.ai/blog/quantum...causely.aiZero Downtime at 30,000 RPS: How Quantum Metric Rearchitected with CauselyDuring a high-risk migration, Causely gave Quantum Metric a new kind of clarity rooted in cause-and-effect across dynamic systems. This helped them improve how they think about managing complexity at ... 031
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 28/10/2025🗳️ It’s time! Voting is open for the 2025 OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Election. Check your status here, if you’re an eligible voter: buff.ly/6xn7MYb Then cast your vote: buff.ly/tQUXYHt 032
Severin Neumann @svrnm.com · 23/10/2025TIL GitHub profile pages have become the new MySpace pages ... I need to rework mine :-O 000
Reposted by Severin NeumannOpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 22/10/2025🎤 OpenTelemetry Unplugged We’re bringing the community together the day after FOSDEM for an unconference: attendee-driven breakouts and a project roadmap session run with the OTel Governance Committee. 📍 Sparks Meeting, Brussels | 🗓️ Mon Feb 2, 2026 | ⏰ 09:00–19:00 🎟️ Register: buff.ly/LYKI9dlevents.humanitix.comOTel Unplugged EU 2026A community-driven unconference where you shape the topics and influence OpenTelemetry’s future. 043
Reposted by Severin NeumannDan Gomez Blanco @dangb.me · 23/10/2025Want to recognise a contributor or say some nice words about someone that made your life easier, or that helped OpenTelemetry grow? Nominate them for the OpenTelemetry Community Awards! This could be anyone, inside or outside the OpenTelemetry project! 022
