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JetBrains expands OpenTelemetry plugin to IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand, PyCharm, and WebStorm
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JetBrains has extended its OpenTelemetry plugin beyond Rider to IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand, PyCharm, and WebStorm starting with the 2026.2 release.
Engineers can now inspect logs, metrics, traces, and service maps directly within these IDEs without setting up a separate local observability backend. This allows developers to catch noisy metrics or missing trace spans during local testing before they reach production.
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The OpenTelemetry plugin is available in IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand, PyCharm, and WebStorm with the 2026.2 release.
The plugin surfaces logs, metrics, traces, and a service map from local applications inside the IDE.
It configures OTLP endpoints for already instrumented Java, Python, Go, or .NET applications rather than adding its own agents.
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