--- title: "#observability articles | Hashnode" description: "Observability is the area emcompassing distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. Read the latest #observability articles and tutorials on Hashnode." url: "https://hashnode.com/tag/observability" --- Tag # #observability 1,289 posts · 110 followers [AI Developer](https://hashnode.com/@lycore) · [21h ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/opentelemetry-tracing-ai-agents-django/6af396b662b23cd0618a9d4e) ### [Don't Put the Prompt on the Span: Tracing Django AI Agents with OpenTelemetry (Part 6)](https://aidevpro.hashnode.dev/opentelemetry-tracing-ai-agents-django?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Trace Django AI agents with OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions: PII-safe spans, prompt refs, tail sampling on cost, and debugging a bad answer. 15 min read · [aidevpro.hashnode.dev](https://aidevpro.hashnode.dev/opentelemetry-tracing-ai-agents-django?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Thyne Ventures](https://hashnode.com/@thyneventures) · [1d ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/which-snowflake-tasks-keep-failing-quietly-one-read-only-query-to-check/6af3333b2c89611674cb5584) ### [Which Snowflake tasks keep failing quietly? One read-only query to check](https://thyneventures.hashnode.dev/which-snowflake-tasks-keep-failing-quietly-one-read-only-query-to-check?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Scheduled tasks that fail every run still burn credits and leave stale data. Here's how to spot them in a minute. 2 min read · [thyneventures.hashnode.dev](https://thyneventures.hashnode.dev/which-snowflake-tasks-keep-failing-quietly-one-read-only-query-to-check?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [AiOps Community](https://hashnode.com/@aiops) · [1d ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/a-practical-checklist-for-opening-a-technical-community-to-ai-agents/6af2bf14316c1824709218d9) ### [A practical checklist for opening a technical community to AI agents](https://aiopscommunity-cyntra.hashnode.dev/a-practical-checklist-for-opening-a-technical-community-to-ai-agents?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) A practical guide to agent onboarding, identity, moderation, and quality controls for technical publishing communities. 3 min read · [aiopscommunity-cyntra.hashnode.dev](https://aiopscommunity-cyntra.hashnode.dev/a-practical-checklist-for-opening-a-technical-community-to-ai-agents?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Abdurashid Akbarov](https://hashnode.com/@rickyone) · [1d ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/connect-product-analytics-and-debugging-with-a-shared-context-contract/6af23b9a19ccd47165a8a05a) ### [Connect product analytics and debugging with a shared context contract](https://abdurashid-builds.hashnode.dev/connect-product-analytics-and-debugging-with-a-shared-context-contract?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) A practical context contract for connecting analytics, errors, traces, and feature flags, with identity, privacy, and staging-test guidance. 7 min read · [abdurashid-builds.hashnode.dev](https://abdurashid-builds.hashnode.dev/connect-product-analytics-and-debugging-with-a-shared-context-contract?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [naresh kumar](https://hashnode.com/@nareshh74) · [2d ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/what-84-800-local-spans-taught-me-about-my-coding-agents-and-my-local-ai-services/6af1e23ee5c391fe0265ca6b) ### [What 84,800 local spans taught me about my coding agents and my local AI services](https://nareshh74.hashnode.dev/what-84-800-local-spans-taught-me-about-my-coding-agents-and-my-local-ai-services?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Token trackers tell you what your agents cost. They do not tell you why a child agent hung for ten minutes. 8 min read · [nareshh74.hashnode.dev](https://nareshh74.hashnode.dev/what-84-800-local-spans-taught-me-about-my-coding-agents-and-my-local-ai-services?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Suprith Modulis](https://hashnode.com/@suprith-modulis) · [2d ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/monitoring-bill-grows-faster-than-traffic/6af19d37828dcfa3ca00aab1) ### [Observability Cost Is an Architecture Decision, Not Just a Vendor Bill](https://modulis-engineering.hashnode.dev/monitoring-bill-grows-faster-than-traffic?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Learn why monitoring bills increase as applications scale and how to audit logs, traces, retention and tooling to build a cost-efficient observability stack. 5 min read · [modulis-engineering.hashnode.dev](https://modulis-engineering.hashnode.dev/monitoring-bill-grows-faster-than-traffic?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Umer Amin Durrani](https://hashnode.com/@umeramindurrani) · [2d ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/queue-depth-is-a-weak-alarm-on-its-own/6af18dc29821d2bb0e43e29e) ### [Queue Depth Is a Weak Alarm on Its Own](https://umeramindurrani.hashnode.dev/queue-depth-is-a-weak-alarm-on-its-own?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Backlog size alone cannot tell you whether customers are waiting too long. 3 min read · [umeramindurrani.hashnode.dev](https://umeramindurrani.hashnode.dev/queue-depth-is-a-weak-alarm-on-its-own?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [1](https://hashnode.com/posts/queue-depth-is-a-weak-alarm-on-its-own/6af18dc29821d2bb0e43e29e) [Abhijeet Shinde](https://hashnode.com/@abhijeet2005) · [3d ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/slow-requests-grafana-internal-vs-public-address/6af09e772b2541f7d4d4c07b) ### [The Slow Requests Weren’t My Code. I Just Couldn’t See the Network Locally](https://weeklyupdate.hashnode.dev/slow-requests-grafana-internal-vs-public-address?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) What my internship taught me about production, Grafana, and a public address that sent traffic the long way round 5 min read · [weeklyupdate.hashnode.dev](https://weeklyupdate.hashnode.dev/slow-requests-grafana-internal-vs-public-address?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Cooper Email](https://hashnode.com/@cooperemail) · [3d ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/llm-observability-pack-explained/6af0961a0ae0960e5024c979) ### [LLM observability pack: free tracing plans for Langfuse, PostHog, LangSmith and more](https://perq.hashnode.dev/llm-observability-pack-explained?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Once an LLM app or agent leaves your laptop, you need to see what it actually did: which prompts went out, what came back, how long each step took and where it failed. Almost every tracing and eval to 4 min read · [perq.hashnode.dev](https://perq.hashnode.dev/llm-observability-pack-explained?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Samuel Aniekeme](https://hashnode.com/@10xAnnie) · [4d ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/building-a-check-engine-light-for-my-homelab-with-grafana/6aef35a000c6c0e3cc8517d5) ### [Building a Check Engine Light for My Homelab with Grafana](https://10xannie.hashnode.dev/building-a-check-engine-light-for-my-homelab-with-grafana?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Why I stopped building wall art Most homelab Grafana dashboards are beautiful and useless: forty graphs, a world map of blocked IPs, and nobody knows which line should worry them. I rebuilt mine aroun 26 min read · [10xannie.hashnode.dev](https://10xannie.hashnode.dev/building-a-check-engine-light-for-my-homelab-with-grafana?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)