Bringing Observability to Claude Code: OpenTelemetry in Action
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·September 21, 2025CuriouslyC
Kind of amazes me how many people bitch about agent performance but don't hook their guys up to Otel, crack Phoenix and get to work, but instead randomly tweak prompts in response to team vibes.
chrisweekly
Good point. Also (tangent), I followed your profile link to https://sibylline.dev and am thoroughly impressed. Stoked to have found your treasure trove of repos and insights.
CuriouslyC
Don't play with them unless you're good at debugging alpha code (claude/codex can do it fine), I haven't ironed out env specific stuff or clarified the installation/usage, and I'm still doing UI polish/optimization passes (yay async simd rust). I'll do showy releases once I've got the tools one click install ready, in the meantime please feel free to drop an issue on any of my projects if there are features or questions you have.
chrisweekly
Sounds good, will do. Good luck getting them polished up!
pdntspa
aka let's spy on our devs more than we already are and give their pointy-haired bosses even more leverage to harass them with AI-usage KPI BS
tomrod
Very nice!
Collecting detailed per-request traces and calculating user-specific metrics finer than a total cost feels about as intrusive as one of those periodic screenshot programs forced by really shitty remote jobs or freelancing contracts. It's pretty gross.