Otel on Netdata

Netdata Skills: Teach Your AI Coding Agent To Monitor

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a growing ecosystem of AI coding agents: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and others. They’re good at writing code, but they don’t inherently know how to instrument that code for observability, configure monitoring infrastructure, or troubleshoot production systems using real telemetry data. That knowledge lives in documentation, runbooks, and the heads of your senior SREs.

We’ve open-sourced a repository that encodes this knowledge into a format AI agents can use directly. netdata/skills is a collection of agent skills, published in the open agentskills.io format, that teach AI coding agents how to set up Netdata, instrument applications with OpenTelemetry, build collector pipelines, troubleshoot 49 specific technologies, and verify everything against live data via MCP.

OpenTelemetry Backend

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An open OTEL backend with native OTLP ingestion, per-second granularity, ML anomaly detection, and infrastructure correlation. Traces coming soon. No per-metric pricing. No vendor lock-in.

OpenTelemetry and Netdata, Today

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

OpenTelemetry has become the default way to instrument applications and ship telemetry. The hard part has never been the data model. It’s been picking a backend that handles OTLP without quietly turning into a per-metric bill or a black box that swallows your data.

Netdata is a native OTLP backend. Stand up an OpenTelemetry Collector with any of its hundreds of receivers, point its OTLP exporter at Netdata, and you get per-second charts, ML anomaly detection on every signal, AI-assisted troubleshooting, and infrastructure correlation, with no per-metric, per-series, or per-host charges. Metrics and logs work today. Trace support is coming soon.