November 2026 Summaries

Spacelift has introduced Run Observability for OpenTofu native stacks, using OpenTofu’s built-in OpenTelemetry traces to help platform teams identify why infrastructure runs are slow or fail without requiring manual setup or debug reruns. The feature automatically collects traces and presents an Observability tab with phase-level timing for initialization, planning, and applying; slow provider-install and resource details; failure phases and error messages; and comparisons against each stack’s normal runtime. Spacelift says the capability addresses a common troubleshooting challenge, citing a survey in which 86% of users encountered slow or failed runs weekly and many relied on external AI tools to interpret logs. Findings combine natural-language explanations and suggested fixes with underlying timing data, while private-worker users can identify opportunities such as provider caching. The feature is generally available for OpenTofu native stacks but not Terraform stacks, which lack equivalent provider-install and per-resource timing data, and Spacelift plans to explore OTLP trace exports to external observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana Tempo, Honeycomb, and New Relic.