OllyGarden Resources

# Everything we know about good telemetry

Guides, customer stories, articles, and talks from the team behind OllyGarden, written for engineers who run OpenTelemetry® in production. Start with what telemetry quality means, see how it is measured, and read what changed for real teams.

## Guides

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### What is telemetry quality?

Telemetry quality is how well your OpenTelemetry data helps you run your systems. Learn its five dimensions, the signs of bad telemetry, and how to measure it.

Read the guide](/resources/telemetry-quality)
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### The Instrumentation Score

The Instrumentation Score rates OpenTelemetry instrumentation from 0 to 100. See how it is calculated, all 25 rules, and a worked example.

See the score](/resources/instrumentation-score)
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### Agent Skills

Open source OpenTelemetry agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex: 18 vendor-neutral fact skills and 5 OllyGarden skills, free under Apache 2.0.

Install the skills](/resources/agent-skills)

## Stories and articles

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### Case studies (3)

Anonymized but real OllyGarden customer stories: what bad telemetry we found, what changed at the source, and the numbers that moved.

Read the stories](/resources/case-studies)
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### Blog (27 articles)

Practical guides on OpenTelemetry instrumentation, Collector configuration, naming conventions, and telemetry cost from the OllyGarden team.

Browse the blog](/resources/blog)
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### Press releases

News and announcements from OllyGarden, the company fixing bad OpenTelemetry telemetry, including product launches and partnerships.

Read the news](/resources/press-releases)

## Talks, events, and practice

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### Webinars and conferences

Webinars, demos, and conference talks on OpenTelemetry, telemetry quality, and instrumentation from the OllyGarden team.

Watch the talks](/resources/webinars-conferences)
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### Events

Where to meet the OllyGarden team next: OpenTelemetry and observability conferences, meetups, and community days.

See upcoming events](/resources/events)
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### OTel Quiz

10 questions, one per OpenTelemetry topic, that challenge even the project's maintainers.

Take the quiz](/otel-quiz)

## Answers

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### FAQ

Answers about OllyGarden products, data privacy, rate limits, and pricing.

Read the FAQ](/resources/faq)
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### Product documentation

Product guides for Insights and Rose, and the OllyGarden API reference.

Open the docs](https://docs.ollygarden.com)

## Latest from the blog

[See all articles](/resources/blog)

![Cover illustration for “Introducing Minimum Viable Instrumentation”](/images/blog/introducing-minimum-viable-instrumentation.png)

Oct 9, 2026 Author: Juraci Paixão Kröhling

### Introducing Minimum Viable Instrumentation

Coding agents write the code and AI SRE agents operate it, so telemetry is the source of truth between them. Rose now brings low-volume, high-quality OpenTelemetry instrumentation to every repository.

- Rose
- Instrumentation
- AI[Read Article](/resources/blog/introducing-minimum-viable-instrumentation)

![Cover illustration for “Where Sensitive Data Hides in OpenTelemetry Pipelines, and How to Find It”](/images/blog/where-sensitive-data-hides-in-opentelemetry-pipelines.png)

Oct 3, 2026 Author: Juraci Paixão Kröhling

### Where Sensitive Data Hides in OpenTelemetry Pipelines, and How to Find It

Trust store passwords in resource attributes, OAuth tokens in query strings, tax IDs in metrics: what we found in real pipelines, why tools cause most of it, and what privacy laws allow.

- Security
- PII
- OpenTelemetry[Read Article](/resources/blog/where-sensitive-data-hides-in-opentelemetry-pipelines)

![Cover illustration for “Observability for Humans and Agents in the AI Age”](/images/blog/observability-for-humans-and-agents-in-the-ai-age.png)

Sep 28, 2026 Authors: Nicolas Wörner and Severin Neumann

### Observability for Humans and Agents in the AI Age

OllyGarden and Bronto on where AI agents help with instrumentation and analysis today, and why they only work when the telemetry is intentional and reachable.

- AI
- Instrumentation
- Observability[Read Article](/resources/blog/observability-for-humans-and-agents-in-the-ai-age)

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