OpenTelemetry has become the standard for vendor-neutral instrumentation, but running it well in Kubernetes requires more than enabling auto-instrumentation. Platform teams must think about collector topology, pipeline design, resource limits, configuration management, and how telemetry behaves under real production conditions.

OpenTelemetry has become the standard for vendor-neutral instrumentation, but running it well in Kubernetes requires more than enabling auto-instrumentation. Platform teams must think about collector topology, pipeline design, resource limits, configuration management, and how telemetry behaves under real production conditions.

LLM-powered applications are increasingly deployed inside Kubernetes clusters, but their observability often depends on manual instrumentation and developer discipline.