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LLMOps

MCP Proxy Observability: NGINX, Kong, Envoy at L7

How to get real MCP telemetry at the proxy hop when you did not write the servers — JSON-RPC method extraction, SSE metrics, NGINX, Kong and Envoy configs.

August 28, 202612 min read
AI Infrastructure

HAMi CNCF Incubating: Heterogeneous GPU Sharing 2026

HAMi moved from CNCF Sandbox to Incubating on 2026-07-02. Vendor-neutral GPU sharing for NVIDIA, AMD, Ascend, Cambricon, Hygon, Iluvatar.

August 27, 202614 min read
Agent Security

Detecting Rogue AI Agents on Your API: Reverse-Engineering Cloudflare Precursor's Threat Model

Server-side signals fail: agents now look identical to humans on the wire. The 5 client-side signal categories Precursor uses, the open-source stack to add them, and the inverse problem — legitimate agents looking less like bots.

August 21, 202615 min read
Observability

ClickHouse + HyperDX for Full-Fidelity LLM Traces 2026

Self-hosted ClickHouse + HyperDX: $180/mo vs Helicone $4,200/mo, OTel gen_ai.* schema, 26.7.4 LTS vs 26.3.19 LTS compatibility.

August 17, 202616 min read
FinOps

Claude Opus 5 Cost-Aware Agent Orchestration on AWS

Route agent work across Claude model tiers without hiding cost, quality, fallback, or data-retention decisions. Includes an OTel contract and rollout playbook.

August 15, 202613 min read
LLMOps

AI Coding Agent Observability 2026: Six Tools

Claude Code 1.0, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, AWS Kiro: per-tool OTel hooks, normalized schema, Concord coordination, Gomaa shared_db.

August 13, 202615 min read

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