2026-10-19

Claude goes OTel

In Agent observability on the Claude Platform, we learn how Claude supports OTel, currently in public Beta. Great to see increasing native support for standards in the rapidly evolving agentic space.

AI agent costs

Michał Bojko wrote Pricing AI Agents: Six Meters in Use, Three Designs Worth Testing, a deep dive analysis with useful findings.

DigitalOcean supports OTel

The one and only Shridhar Pandey published Introducing DigitalOcean Insights: Built-in Observability for Your Agents, Applications, and Infrastructure, showing this new feature in action. Congrats on this awesome capability with native OTel support!

AI agent watch

The good folks of Sematext shared Introducing Governance in AI Agent Watch, with examples of policies.

Tooling

Tools I stumbled upon and found useful:

• oxynote/oxynote, a Wiki with live metric charts next to the paragraph explaining it.
• adityareddy-dev/otel-js-upgrade, a reviewable diff for OTel JavaScript migrations (SDK 2.x to 3.0 code).

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