How Telemetry is different
- Telemetry is organized around SQL tables and structured logs instead of primarily product analytics reports.
- Backend, worker, job, API, and agent events are first-class use cases.
- Coding agents can install instrumentation from prompts and skill.md.
When Telemetry is a good fit
- You need to debug APIs, jobs, webhooks, agents, or event pipelines.
- You want raw SQL over structured events.
- You want generated dashboards and queries from your codebase context.
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Start with one backend workflow
Pick an API route, AI workflow, webhook, or job queue. Send structured events and query them before expanding coverage.
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