In 2026, AI-native automation is fundamentally reshaping telemetry pipeline management. As a result, around 80% of configuration tasks currently hand-built by enterprise teams, whether they tackle security or pull insights from observability, will be automated. This transforms the roles of those teams from builders to strategic drivers. The acceleration of this shift was made possible by the alignment of several elements, namely the convergence in the standardization of OpenTelemetry, rapidly maturing AI, increasing competition between platform choices, and economic pressure ...

Ryan Goins, Head of Product at Bindplane, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.