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The OpenTelemetry Profiles Signal is now in Alpha 🚀 This is a big step towards making Continuous Profiling in production available to the whole industry. And given the rise of AI coding, this couldn't come at a better moment in time ... 🧵

Felix Geisendörfer

@felixge.de

Profiles (unlike logs, metrics and traces) are directly linked to code. Florian Lehner and I demonstrated this at KubeCon by using profiling to root cause an incident caused by a coding agent. But the reverse works too: agents can use profiles to troubleshoot or optimize code.

31/3/26, 5:24 am0 reposts2 likes

Symon Baikov

@symonbaikov.bsky.social

31 Mar

This is such an underrated point. Profiles are one of the few artifacts agents can use that stay grounded in actual runtime behavior instead of just plausible code reasoning. Great bridge between observability and agent workflows.

Felix Geisendörfer

@felixge.de

31 Mar

If this sounds interesting to you, and you'd like to get an early taste of the troubleshooting powers of the Profiles Signal, please check out our post on the OpenTelemetry blog for more details: opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/pr...

Felix Geisendörfer

@felixge.de

31 Mar

And of course, if you're looking for a vendor, Datadog has you covered. You can join the preview for the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler here: docs.datadoghq.com/profiler/ena...

Boris M

@bmarinov.bsky.social

31 Mar

I need to watch the presentation, so excuse me if this was addressed. After looking into the profiles format I am not sure what backing store will do a good job of ingesting these at reasonable scale. TSDBs are out, are we looking at wide col DBs as generic solutions? Plus vendor specific solutions?