How I Added OpenTelemetry Tracing to 47 Services With Claude Code in 9 Days
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TL;DR I had 47 backend services that emitted logs but no traces, so every incident turned into a cross-repo grep party. I used Claude Code to instrument all of them with OpenTelemetry in 9 days — not by asking it to "add tracing," but by writing one reference implementation by hand and turning our…
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- 2026-09-24 14:32 · DEV Community — AI
How I Added OpenTelemetry Tracing to 47 Services With Claude Code in 9 Days