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Today is another big day for @dash0hq. We're welcoming @PolarSignalsIO to the team. Polar Signals has built the leading continuous profiler for cloud-native workloads, including GPU and CUDA support, and created Parca, the open source continuous profiling project. Together, we're bringing continuous profiling natively into Dash0. That means profiling won't live in a separate tool; it’ll sit alongside traces, metrics and logs in the same OpenTelemetry-native platform, unifying the data and giving engineers a much deeper understanding of what's happening inside their applications. We've shared more about why we made this move in the comments.

Earlier this week, the Dash0 exec team was hard at work, all suited up for our quarterly board meeting. Big thanks to our investors for embracing our dress code 🔴 and keeping things fun! 😄 Next stop to meet the team: #KubeConNA in Salt Lake City. See you there!

Stable sounds like good news, right up until your dashboards go blank. The ecosystem spent the last couple of weeks moving things from experimental to default. With the Java agent 3.0 release candidate, db.statement becomes db.query.text and db.system becomes db.system.name, so every alert and saved query that uses the old names has to move with it. Jay DeLuca from Grafana Labs wrote the post. Hostmetrics takes another route. Dónal O’Sullivan from Elastic shows how the process scraper versions its metrics behind two alpha feature gates, both off by default. The post gives you a window of about six months to migrate. OTTL is now stable for traces, metrics and logs, and OBI shipped its first 1.0 release candidates. That is the lead story in Code RED issue 40. If you are not a subscriber yet, subscribe and the next one finds you. Full Issue: eu1.hubs.ly/H0zlFPT0

Platform engineers build the road. SREs get the page when someone drives off it. This week in London, the two share one networking area. The Observability and SRE Summit and the Platform Engineering Summit run side by side. Joff Stewart and Tom Orchard, from the team, are there for day two with a pass to both. 🇬🇧 If you’re in that hallway, come say hi.

Looking back at Croatia, it’s hard not to wish we’d had a few more days together. 🎉 Early morning runs, karaoke, team sessions, long evenings in Old Town and a lot of laughing in between. From the first dinner to the final goodbyes, we packed a lot into the week. A huge thank you to everyone who made the week what it was, and especially to the team behind all the planning and organising. And a special thank you to James Eldridge for capturing the week and putting this video together.

Our SLO webinar showed why SLOs matter more as AI writes more of your code. Now it’s time to build one. Join us for a live, hands-on workshop where you’ll use your own AI coding agent to instrument a service you own, send telemetry to Dash0, define an availability SLO as code, and set up deploy markers and burn rate alerts. Five prompts, about an hour, and a working SLO at the end. @Liat Hoffman, Product Manager at Dash0, will run the same five prompts live, so you can follow along and check each result in Dash0. 📆 Thursday, November 5, 11am ET / 5pm CET Save your spot here eu1.hubs.ly/H0zf9M30

Attackers have agents now. So we brought one in and pointed it at our dev environment. Morpheus, the autonomous pentesting agent from Cenobe Cybersecurity, probed it from the outside. Agent0 caught it, and it was never built to be a security tool. This doesn’t replace your SOC. It’s one more layer. Mirco Kater on going from pipe dream to prototype without a single meeting. Read the full post here: eu1.hubs.ly/H0zbySN0

Last day in Dubrovnik, and what a week it's been! 🇭🇷 When your team is spread across the world, you get used to working together through screens. Having everyone in the same place for a few days makes a difference. We've had company sessions, team building, early morning runs, karaoke, and some very good dinners. But some of the best moments happened in between. Conversations that continued long after the sessions ended, catching up with teammates, and getting to know each other outside of work. A huge thank you to everyone who made the trip and made this such a great week. And a special thank you to Lindsey Young, Paloma Baltazar, Anastasia Kauz, Sara Gudzevic, Jah Orawee, Rivital Englender, Vesna Vujasinovic, and Burak Tunc for making it all happen. From the airport pickups to our final dinner in Old Town, you thought of everything. Safe travels home, everyone! 🧡

This is what more than 200 people building Dash0 together looks like. 🇭🇷 Yesterday, we had the whole team in one room, with Mirko Novakovic, Oliver Manojlovic, Laurent Séraphin, Judith Redi, Ben Blackmore, and Paloma Baltazar kicking off our first full day in Croatia. A big thank you to Jan Frodeno, Olympic gold medalist and three-time Ironman World Champion, for joining us and sharing what two decades at the highest level have taught him about handling pressure, overcoming setbacks, and keeping going. We spent the afternoon in department sessions, getting into what’s ahead for each team, before coming back together for another great team dinner. One more day in Croatia with the whole team together!

Flights came in from all over the world yesterday, and everyone made it to Croatia. Last night, we sat down for the biggest Dash0 dinner we’ve had so far. For some, it was a reunion. For others, the first time meeting teammates in person. Today, the first full day of the meetup gets underway. Team sessions, team building, and plenty happening in between. A great start to the week. 🇭🇷

Most days, Dash0 is spread across time zones. This week, everyone is heading in the same direction. The whole team is making its way to Croatia for our company meetup. A lot has changed since our last meetup. The team is bigger, and for many, this will be their first Dash0 meetup. It’s the biggest group we’ve brought together so far, and we’re looking forward to having everyone in one place for a few days. 🇭🇷

Early-stage teams already have plenty to build. Observability should help them move faster, not become another project to manage. That's the idea behind Dash0 for Startups: giving growing teams the observability they need without turning setup, maintenance, and cost into another thing competing for their time. Eligible startups get 50% off their first year with Dash0, or 90% if they're backed by an investor in the Dash0 partner network. The discount applies to up to $100K in first-year spend and covers the full Dash0 platform. To qualify, startups need to be Series A or earlier, have fewer than 40 employees, and have raised less than $50M. The early days move fast. The tools around you should help you keep that pace, not slow you down. Dash0 for Startups is live. Apply and see if you qualify: eu1.hubs.ly/H0yWr-00

Writing code got cheaper. Trust didn't. That's the thread through this issue of Code RED, Kasper Borg Nissen's fortnightly read on what's moving across observability, OpenTelemetry, and AI. - Juraci Kröhling and OllyGarden keep finding sensitive data in real OpenTelemetry pipelines. Command line arguments in resource attributes, query strings in url.full, authorization headers, and now AI prompts. "Most of what we find is a tool doing what it was configured to do." - Atlassian rebuilt incident detection on OpenTelemetry, Kafka and Flink. Detection went from over 40 seconds to under 10, and monthly cost from around $20,000 to $650. - The share of teams finding Prometheus and OpenTelemetry hard to use together fell from 29% to 10% in two years. - Cursor's new Rollouts bot checks telemetry after a deploy, and it is allowed to answer "inconclusive". Also in there, Kaspar von Grünberg on why platform teams should think tracing first, Liat Hoffman on setting the SLO before the code exists, Go compile time instrumentation reaching v1, and a few things that shipped in Dash0. Full issue: eu1.hubs.ly/H0y-7xx0 Check your url.full before someone else does.