Hello, Hola, Ciao, Hej, Hallo, Witam, مرحباً بكم ,درود, שלום everyone! 
Here are some of the works of the mighty Observability Core team from weeks 5 and 6 of 2026, corresponding to pulse 4.
The Team
As always, a quick reminder on our team members! On the Core team we have:
Together with the Tracing and Profiling and Service Mesh teams, we combine to create the greater Observability team, managed by Simme.
The Work
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OpentelemetryCollector charm: Now otelcol’s and node-exporter’s ports are configurable -
Opentelemetry Collector charm: Node-exporter Grafana dashboard added -
We were invited to give a talk at DB Mastery Series 2026 about Observability. Presentation here -
cos-configurator charm: fix: use proxy when cloning if proxy model config set -
cos-agentlib fixed by always setting ajob_namefor allscrape_configs -
Documentation: troubleshoot grafana admin password -
Opentelemetry Collector: Documentation update. Sphinx starter pack added, and README updated
Feedback welcome
As always, feedback is very welcome! Feel free to let us know your thoughts, questions, or suggestions either here or on our Matrix channel .
That’s all for this time! See you again in two weeks! ![]()