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Always-on tracing went to beta on 21 August 2026 at $0.50 per 1M span units, a price only the changelog states. Trace retention stops at 3 days even where Observability Plus keeps 30 days of logs.
Most observability overspend is not a vendor problem. It is a data-model problem meeting a billing rule nobody read. Here are the six published rules that move the number, with the primary sources.
Gemini Enterprise now traces an agent call end to end, from the assistant prompt through the orchestration layer to the third-party API. Two new spans, a 30-day retention window and a $0.20 per million span meter decide
Grafana Cloud added Agent Observability for LLM agents, built on OpenTelemetry. This guide covers instrumentation with OpenLIT, what the traces show, and the trace-volume cost math versus Datadog, Langfuse and Arize
Vendor posts say OpenTelemetry's GenAI client spans went stable in early 2026. The specification says Development on every page, which sits below Alpha. Here is what that means for your instrumentation.
