Storing Datasette OpenTelemetry Trace Data with Parseable
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On October 7, 2026, Simon Willison published a TIL (Today I Learned) article demonstrating how to store and query Datasette's OpenTelemetry traces using Parseable. The article introduces Parseable as a relatively new observability tool, offering an AGPL open-source Rust implementation shipped as a single binary of about 180MB, along with Enterprise and cloud-hosted options. With this setup, OpenTelemetry traces generated by Datasette can be sent to Parseable for centralized storage and retrieved and analyzed using its query capabilities. This is the only report on the event so far, with no follow-up developments.
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- Simon WillisonUsing Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces
In a TIL post, Simon Willison demonstrated how to store and query Datasette's OpenTelemetry traces with Parseable. Parseable is a new observability tool offering an AGPL open-source Rust implementation (a single ~180MB binary), an Enterprise edition, and cloud-hosted options.