Observability for any agent, anywhere: Production-ready tracing with OpenTelemetry & Unity Catalog on Databricks
Summary
Databricks now supports writing OpenTelemetry traces directly to Unity Catalog tables via a fully managed, serverless ingestion path. This enables governed, analytics-ready observability data with long-term retention and unified evaluation workflows, without operating OTel infrastructure.
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