Observability

OpenLLMetry for tokenmaxxing

Useful for teams that already live in telemetry and want token behavior next to the rest of production reality.

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What it does

Open-source observability for LLM and GenAI applications, built on OpenTelemetry conventions.

Why it belongs here

Useful for teams that already live in telemetry and want token behavior next to the rest of production reality.

Best use case

Engineering organizations that already use OpenTelemetry and want LLM traces inside existing observability workflows.

How to use it

Instrument LLM calls with spans, attributes, costs, and model metadata, then correlate model behavior with service-level events.

Limits

Telemetry can get noisy. Teams need clear naming, sampling, and dashboards that answer real operating questions.

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Enterprise AI budgets break at the handoff to production

Express Computer interviews New Relic India's Ganesh Narasimhadevara on why AI bills keep climbing while the blended cost per million tokens has fallen over a year, from $18.40 in Q1 2025 down to $6.07 in Q1 2026.

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Cisco's Splunk adds Tokenomics to track coding-agent token spend

At Splunk .conf on Sept. 15, Cisco added a Tokenomics module to Splunk Agent Observability. It attributes token spend across AI agents and across employees' use of coding agents, naming Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

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From tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing

IT Pro canvasses Gartner, IDC, 451 Research and HPE on what replaces token leaderboards. The Tokenomics Foundation's Mike Fuller says the outcome-first 'valuemaxxing' fix only measures half the equation.

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Meta drops token counts from performance reviews

Meta's Maher Saba and Santosh Janardhan told staff in an internal memo that adoption dashboards and token counts are out of performance reviews; managers should weigh the difficulty and quality of shipped work instead.

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