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2026-10-27 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-10-27

Subpoena: Trace-native testing for OpenTelemetry

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Subpoena reuses TraceQL assertions across unit tests, integration checks, and production alerts for OpenTelemetry-instrumented code.

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Go teams testing OpenTelemetry-instrumented services
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Absence assertions return Pass, Fail, or Inconclusive; incomplete capture fails by default.

Field notes

An invariant is a TraceQL query stored in a file and reused across unit tests, integration checks against a collector and Tempo, and Grafana production alert rules; a test checks that the copies remain aligned. For process evidence, the project describes an eBPF observer keyed to session cgroups and trace IDs, with argument correlation as a fallback. Absence checks distinguish Pass, Fail, and Inconclusive, and treat Inconclusive as failure by default.

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