SolarWinds launched Avior, a standalone AI agent for first-line IT work that holds anything it classes as potentially dangerous for human approval. The company says models decide what needs doing while a fixed, auditable framework controls how, so a rollout turns on where the vendor draws that line.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 27%
- Operator
- Operator 60%
- Investor
- Investor 13%
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence65
buildOne report1 publisher Tempo 3.1 lets operators with TLS-only Kafka brokers run the 3.0 architecture
Grafana Labs released Tempo 3.1, adding TLS and four SASL mechanisms to a Kafka client that 3.0 limited to unencrypted SASL PLAIN. Redaction by query and a vParquet5 default add upgrade reasons, with a sequencing condition on the redaction flags.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence65
Groundcover routes production debugging from Claude and Codex to its own agent
Groundcover opened its observability data to outside coding agents such as Claude and Codex through MCP tools and asynchronous Agent Tasks. A coding agent that cannot see past deployment can now pass a production question to a specialist agent.
Reality
- Evidence25
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher Workers Issues can now wake an incident agent through a signed MCP Event
Cloudflare's API MCP server sends a signed MCP Event to a client webhook when Workers Issues detects a new or recurring production failure. An incident agent can start from that event without a polling loop. A dev.to walkthrough says the event should open a read-only investigation and leave any production change behind human approval.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher n8n workflow runs now export OpenTelemetry traces, with a span per node if enabled
n8n announced native OpenTelemetry tracing on June 8, 2026, emitting one trace per workflow run and, optionally, a child span for every node. Teams that already run an OTLP-compatible backend can read an n8n run beside their other services.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher EVE Online traces a 20-year-old single-shard game with head-based sampling only
EVE Online runs 100% head-based sampling with no tail sampling, Nicholas Herring said in a talk published by InfoQ. The team blends deterministic and exponential-moving-average sampling to balance trace fidelity against cost.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption50
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher Cloudflare adds on-demand production profiling for Workers and Durable Objects
Cloudflare now lets Workers and Durable Objects users take on-demand CPU and memory profiles in production and view them as flamegraphs. Each capture runs for a window the user sets and can be saved from the CLI to a .pprof file for further analysis.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives65
- Confidence70
buildOne report1 publisher Netflix's observability team treats cross-stack incident correlation as a data engineering problem
Netflix's observability team says tying user experience to system performance at 38 million log events a second is a data engineering problem. Its proposed answer, named in the talk's title, is an ontology-driven end-to-end knowledge graph.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives40
- Confidence30
buildOne report1 publisher OllyGarden's $4 million bet moves telemetry fixes into the pull request
OllyGarden raised $4 million as its Rose agent moves upstream to propose baseline instrumentation in code. Founder Juraci Paixao Kroehling says AI-written code is pushing telemetry volume up, so the fix belongs in code before teams pay to store it.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence40
New Relic's Ground Truth CLI, now in limited preview, lets developers and AI agents query production telemetry and verify fixes without a dashboard. On-call teams will mostly use its recovery check, which reruns against a condition that someone still has to write.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Appetite for agentic IT outruns the trust to let it make decisions
Riverbed's survey found 90% of IT leaders want agentic AI running autonomous operations within two years. But 77% will not let agents make operational decisions without a human, and just one in five run automated operations now.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher OpenTelemetry's Kubernetes Attributes Processor v1.0.0 renames attributes that dashboards and alerts query
OpenTelemetry moved its Kubernetes Attributes Processor to v1.0.0 on stable semantic conventions that rename several attributes. Dashboards, alerts and queries built on the old label and image-tag names need updating as part of the upgrade.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap0
- Incentives30
- Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher Cloudflare Traces records edge rule, cache and routing decisions as OpenTelemetry spans
Cloudflare has put Traces into open beta, recording each supported step a request takes through its edge as an OpenTelemetry span. The spans export to any OTLP endpoint, so edge decisions can sit in the tracing backend a team already runs.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives85
- Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher Cloudflare moves logs, traces and Logpush exports onto one observability platform
Cloudflare is merging logs, traces, alerts, dashboards and exports into one observability platform, shipped as eight updates under one pricing model. With Logpush now on self-serve plans, teams that run their own Cloudflare log pipeline have a built-in alternative to cost out.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives75
- Confidence55
buildConfirmed2 publishers AWS's CloudWatch Omni, generally available since September 23, lets Okta and Entra ID users investigate incidents without AWS console access. CloudWatch dashboard sharing has let outsiders view prebuilt graphs since 2020, so what Omni adds is the investigation itself, one of the reasons teams paid for third-party platforms.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Four-times-faster incident pipeline caught just 64% of in-scope incidents in a bad month
One SaaS team's rebuild of incident detection on Kafka and Flink cut telemetry lag from over 40 seconds to under 10, according to its CNCF post. Over eighteen months its recall ran from about 60% to 86% and back to 64%, so speed alone says little about which outages get caught.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives40
- Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher Spring Boot 4.2's second milestone adds a switch between Micrometer and OpenTelemetry conventions
Spring Boot 4.2.0-M2 adds management.observations.conventions, a property that switches semantic conventions between Micrometer and OpenTelemetry. Teams moving to 4.2 now have to pick the naming their dashboards and alerts will match.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap0
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher Atlassian rebuilds its 100,000-host metrics pipeline on OpenTelemetry behind the old StatsD interface
Atlassian rebuilt a metrics platform fed by about 100,000 hosts on OpenTelemetry while its applications kept sending StatsD packets to the same address. The platform team did the work alone. Moving thousands of services onto OpenTelemetry SDKs comes later.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher Dev.to fintech guide records checkout outcomes only after commit or rollback
Checkout metrics in a dev.to guide are recorded only after commit or rollback, and its rollback rule needs 20 attempts and a 5% failure rate. Keeping telemetry out of the transaction protects the failure record, though the default rule calls for rollback on a single failure in 20 attempts.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives50
- Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher ControlTheory's CTO credits Claude Code with a chat fix built on Dstl8's production logs
ControlTheory CTO Eric Anderson says Claude Code fixed a September 25 chat failure from Dstl8's production evidence. Dstl8 closes incidents when symptoms stop, so its 70% closure rate on 328 incidents counts recoveries and leaves proof of each fix to engineers.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives75
- Confidence45