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Is OpenTelemetry the foundation for mobile observability? Not really. 🔍
OTel standardizes telemetry, but mobile has unique constraints. bitdrift stores telemetry on-device, retrieves only what matters, correlates with backend traces when investigation requires it. ⚡
blog.bitdrift.io/post/what-is...
OTel standardizes telemetry, but mobile has unique constraints. bitdrift stores telemetry on-device, retrieves only what matters, correlates with backend traces when investigation requires it. ⚡
blog.bitdrift.io/post/what-is...
What is OpenTelemetry, and what is it not? - bitdrift Blog
OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework and software including SDKs, tracing instrumentation, and a universal collector for generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry from applications and…
blog.bitdrift.io
February 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Is OpenTelemetry the foundation for mobile observability? Not really. 🔍
OTel standardizes telemetry, but mobile has unique constraints. bitdrift stores telemetry on-device, retrieves only what matters, correlates with backend traces when investigation requires it. ⚡
blog.bitdrift.io/post/what-is...
OTel standardizes telemetry, but mobile has unique constraints. bitdrift stores telemetry on-device, retrieves only what matters, correlates with backend traces when investigation requires it. ⚡
blog.bitdrift.io/post/what-is...
🚩 New in bitdrift Capture: feature flag support!
See which flags and variants were exposed when crashes occurred. Filter issues by experiment. Build workflows that match on specific feature flag states.
Full details: blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
See which flags and variants were exposed when crashes occurred. Filter issues by experiment. Build workflows that match on specific feature flag states.
Full details: blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
Announcing feature flag support - bitdrift Blog
Introducing feature flag support in bitdrift Capture. Correlate feature flags to issues, filter by variant, and build workflows that react to feature flag exposures.
blog.bitdrift.io
January 29, 2026 at 5:03 PM
🚩 New in bitdrift Capture: feature flag support!
See which flags and variants were exposed when crashes occurred. Filter issues by experiment. Build workflows that match on specific feature flag states.
Full details: blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
See which flags and variants were exposed when crashes occurred. Filter issues by experiment. Build workflows that match on specific feature flag states.
Full details: blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise episode alert!
Hear Gabriel Savit, Co-founder & CEO of Runway, on why mobile releases stay painfully manual, why checklists don’t fix release chaos, and a surprising “automation paradox".
Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts!) bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Hear Gabriel Savit, Co-founder & CEO of Runway, on why mobile releases stay painfully manual, why checklists don’t fix release chaos, and a surprising “automation paradox".
Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts!) bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
beyond the noise - Why Mobile Releases Still Feel Like Chaos, with Runway CEO Gabriel Savit
Matt Klein sits down with Gabriel Savit, former iOS engineer and now co-founder & CEO of Runway, to unpack why mobile release processes remain painfully manual and coordination-heavy, even for…
bitdrift.io
January 26, 2026 at 4:22 PM
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise episode alert!
Hear Gabriel Savit, Co-founder & CEO of Runway, on why mobile releases stay painfully manual, why checklists don’t fix release chaos, and a surprising “automation paradox".
Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts!) bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Hear Gabriel Savit, Co-founder & CEO of Runway, on why mobile releases stay painfully manual, why checklists don’t fix release chaos, and a surprising “automation paradox".
Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts!) bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
A traditional mobile crash tool shows you how your app crashed.
bitdrift: shows you why it crashed.
Mobile crash reporting is free on bitdrift. Full context included: everything you need to track and debug crashes. Try it today! #MobileCrashReporting
bitdrift: shows you why it crashed.
Mobile crash reporting is free on bitdrift. Full context included: everything you need to track and debug crashes. Try it today! #MobileCrashReporting
Announcing crash reporting the way it should be: free & full of context - bitdrift Blog
Rosalind Lutsky
blog.bitdrift.io
January 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A traditional mobile crash tool shows you how your app crashed.
bitdrift: shows you why it crashed.
Mobile crash reporting is free on bitdrift. Full context included: everything you need to track and debug crashes. Try it today! #MobileCrashReporting
bitdrift: shows you why it crashed.
Mobile crash reporting is free on bitdrift. Full context included: everything you need to track and debug crashes. Try it today! #MobileCrashReporting
🎙️New episode alert! Hear @tysmith.me, Principal Engineer at Uber, talk his career path, the coming validation/observability crunch, and the rise of AI-driven development.
Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
beyond the noise - Scaling Mobile at Uber: Ty Smith on Community, Toolchains, and the Next Dev Productivity Wave
Matt Klein sits down with Ty Smith, Principal Engineer at Uber and longtime Android community pillar, to trace a career from tinkering on a Pentium at age six to building at Uber scale. They discuss m...
bitdrift.io
January 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
🎙️New episode alert! Hear @tysmith.me, Principal Engineer at Uber, talk his career path, the coming validation/observability crunch, and the rise of AI-driven development.
Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise ep! @smileykeith.bsky.social (“Bazel Keith"), talks Bazel, iOS tooling, and his journey from CocoaPods ➡️ Lyft ➡️ Modular.
Catch war stories of compiler bugs, dealing w/large Swift codebases, plus, why Apple/Google don’t solve many DX problems 👀
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Catch war stories of compiler bugs, dealing w/large Swift codebases, plus, why Apple/Google don’t solve many DX problems 👀
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
beyond the noise - Bazel Keith and the Quest for Better Builds
Matt Klein sits down with Keith Smiley, aka “Bazel Keith,” to talk all things Bazel and iOS tooling. Keith shares how hacking on Objective-C in high school, contributing to CocoaPods in college, and j...
bitdrift.io
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise ep! @smileykeith.bsky.social (“Bazel Keith"), talks Bazel, iOS tooling, and his journey from CocoaPods ➡️ Lyft ➡️ Modular.
Catch war stories of compiler bugs, dealing w/large Swift codebases, plus, why Apple/Google don’t solve many DX problems 👀
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Catch war stories of compiler bugs, dealing w/large Swift codebases, plus, why Apple/Google don’t solve many DX problems 👀
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
bitdrift now supports issue triaging:
- Assign issues directly
- Set a status for any issue
-Track which app version includes a fix
Read more about how to go from detection ➝ fix, all without leaving bitdrift.
#bitdrift #mobileobservability
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
- Assign issues directly
- Set a status for any issue
-Track which app version includes a fix
Read more about how to go from detection ➝ fix, all without leaving bitdrift.
#bitdrift #mobileobservability
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
Announcing issue triaging - bitdrift Blog
blog.bitdrift.io
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
bitdrift now supports issue triaging:
- Assign issues directly
- Set a status for any issue
-Track which app version includes a fix
Read more about how to go from detection ➝ fix, all without leaving bitdrift.
#bitdrift #mobileobservability
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
- Assign issues directly
- Set a status for any issue
-Track which app version includes a fix
Read more about how to go from detection ➝ fix, all without leaving bitdrift.
#bitdrift #mobileobservability
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
🎙️ The newest episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped! Listen to @mattklein123.dev and @p-y.wtf chat about his journey from open source to Block, and why AI introducing so many new bugs may actually be a good thing for curious engineers 🪲
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
beyond the noise - In Praise of Bugs: P-Y Ricau on the Joy of Breaking Things
P-Y Ricau, Principal Engineer at Block and Android legend, joins Matt Klein to discuss 16 years of mobile engineering: from building LeakCanary and early Android tooling to why crash rates miss real u...
bitdrift.io
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎙️ The newest episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped! Listen to @mattklein123.dev and @p-y.wtf chat about his journey from open source to Block, and why AI introducing so many new bugs may actually be a good thing for curious engineers 🪲
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
We started with a simple idea: "Let’s prototype how bitdrift would work on godot". Normal teams would write a PRD. Maybe write a spec.
We are not normal. We built a fully functional arcade cabinet.
Here's the story: blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...
We are not normal. We built a fully functional arcade cabinet.
Here's the story: blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...
Introducing godot support (a.k.a. how we accidentally built an arcade machine) - bitdrift Blog
blog.bitdrift.io
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We started with a simple idea: "Let’s prototype how bitdrift would work on godot". Normal teams would write a PRD. Maybe write a spec.
We are not normal. We built a fully functional arcade cabinet.
Here's the story: blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...
We are not normal. We built a fully functional arcade cabinet.
Here's the story: blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...
🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped!
In this episode, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings discusses working on the first Droid phone, his time at Evernote, JPMC, and now DraftKings, and more!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/5QAb...
In this episode, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings discusses working on the first Droid phone, his time at Evernote, JPMC, and now DraftKings, and more!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/5QAb...
From Droid Days to DraftKings: Hemant Garg on Velocity with Guardrails
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped!
In this episode, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings discusses working on the first Droid phone, his time at Evernote, JPMC, and now DraftKings, and more!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/5QAb...
In this episode, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings discusses working on the first Droid phone, his time at Evernote, JPMC, and now DraftKings, and more!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/5QAb...
Reposted by bitdrift
We’re hosting a mobile engineering happy hour in San Francisco next Tuesday, on the 11th. We'll be at Bar Darling, one of my favorite SF bars.
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
Telemetry on Tap: Mobile Engineering Happy Hour | hosted by bitdrift · Luma
You're invited to join the bitdrift team for an evening of food, drinks, and good conversation with other mobile devs! This event is invite-only. RSVP to…
luma.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We’re hosting a mobile engineering happy hour in San Francisco next Tuesday, on the 11th. We'll be at Bar Darling, one of my favorite SF bars.
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
🚀 Crash Reporting is here… and it’s free.
Stop chasing repro steps. See what actually happened before every crash.
Signup: bitdrift.io/signup
Join on Product Hunt: www.producthunt.com/products/bit...
#mobiledev #crashreporting
Stop chasing repro steps. See what actually happened before every crash.
Signup: bitdrift.io/signup
Join on Product Hunt: www.producthunt.com/products/bit...
#mobiledev #crashreporting
bitdrift - sign up
Your mobile application deserves a great observability solution. See every edge case, crash, and slow screen without waiting for another release.
bitdrift.io
October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🚀 Crash Reporting is here… and it’s free.
Stop chasing repro steps. See what actually happened before every crash.
Signup: bitdrift.io/signup
Join on Product Hunt: www.producthunt.com/products/bit...
#mobiledev #crashreporting
Stop chasing repro steps. See what actually happened before every crash.
Signup: bitdrift.io/signup
Join on Product Hunt: www.producthunt.com/products/bit...
#mobiledev #crashreporting
Adding more telemetry to your app shouldn't require a re-deploy (and the long app store approval process that goes with it). With bitdrift, it doesn't 👇
October 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Adding more telemetry to your app shouldn't require a re-deploy (and the long app store approval process that goes with it). With bitdrift, it doesn't 👇
It’s here! 🎙️ Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories & Spicy Takes - our new podcast hosted by Matt Klein.
Get the hottest takes from the people building the future of mobile.
1⃣ Lyft & bitdrift origins
2⃣ Instacart & the future of retail tech
Listen now:
Get the hottest takes from the people building the future of mobile.
1⃣ Lyft & bitdrift origins
2⃣ Instacart & the future of retail tech
Listen now:
Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy Takes
Podcast · bitdrift · Hosted by Matt Klein, creator of Envoy and co-founder of bitdrift, Beyond the Noise goes inside the minds of the engineers, founders, and technical leaders defining the next era…
open.spotify.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It’s here! 🎙️ Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories & Spicy Takes - our new podcast hosted by Matt Klein.
Get the hottest takes from the people building the future of mobile.
1⃣ Lyft & bitdrift origins
2⃣ Instacart & the future of retail tech
Listen now:
Get the hottest takes from the people building the future of mobile.
1⃣ Lyft & bitdrift origins
2⃣ Instacart & the future of retail tech
Listen now:
🚨 The third post in our hands-on series has dropped! In this post, we'll walk you through how to instrument a funnel in bitdrift. Follow along as we create a funnel for the Wikipedia iOS app to analyze user drop-off in the donation funnel.
Funnel cake: sweet insights with bitdrift funnels - bitdrift Blog
Learn how to instrument a bitdrift funnel in the Wikipedia iOS app and analyze user drop-off in the donation flow in this hands-on guide.
blog.bitdrift.io
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🚨 The third post in our hands-on series has dropped! In this post, we'll walk you through how to instrument a funnel in bitdrift. Follow along as we create a funnel for the Wikipedia iOS app to analyze user drop-off in the donation funnel.
We couldn’t agree more. Observability is essential...but legacy tools often bury teams in more noise, complexity, and bills. We’re here to change that.
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
We couldn’t agree more. Observability is essential...but legacy tools often bury teams in more noise, complexity, and bills. We’re here to change that.
What if you could spend less time chasing down hard-to-reproduce bugs and more time shipping features? We're happy to help teams like Bluesky Social do just that 🔎 🐛
October 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
What if you could spend less time chasing down hard-to-reproduce bugs and more time shipping features? We're happy to help teams like Bluesky Social do just that 🔎 🐛
Reposted by bitdrift
As we work with more and more customers @bitdrift.io, one of the biggest usability problems that customers face that is inherent in real-time observability ...
October 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
As we work with more and more customers @bitdrift.io, one of the biggest usability problems that customers face that is inherent in real-time observability ...
What you don’t see can hurt you 👀 RUM is powerful, but sampling makes it way less effective. That's why we let you collect data without sampling (and without blowing up your budget)
Read more here: blog.bitdrift.io/post/danger-...
Read more here: blog.bitdrift.io/post/danger-...
The danger of sampled RUM data: what you don’t see can hurt you - bitdrift Blog
Sampling real-user monitoring (RUM) data can mask issues, skew metrics, and hurt debugging. Explore sampling pitfalls, mitigation strategies, and how bitdrift provides a better full-coverage…
buff.ly
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
What you don’t see can hurt you 👀 RUM is powerful, but sampling makes it way less effective. That's why we let you collect data without sampling (and without blowing up your budget)
Read more here: blog.bitdrift.io/post/danger-...
Read more here: blog.bitdrift.io/post/danger-...
Did you know that you can use bitdrift for crash reports?
We designed our crash reporting tool alongside Capture. What does this mean for you? Well, instead of being limited to breadcrumbs, you get full context on every crash.
Read more here 👇
We designed our crash reporting tool alongside Capture. What does this mean for you? Well, instead of being limited to breadcrumbs, you get full context on every crash.
Read more here 👇
Announcing crash reporting: why have breadcrumbs when you can have the whole loaf? - bitdrift Blog
Today we are immensely excited to announce the biggest addition to bitdrift Capture in the history of the product: first party crash reporting! At the risk of extreme hyperbole, we believe that the…
blog.bitdrift.io
September 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Did you know that you can use bitdrift for crash reports?
We designed our crash reporting tool alongside Capture. What does this mean for you? Well, instead of being limited to breadcrumbs, you get full context on every crash.
Read more here 👇
We designed our crash reporting tool alongside Capture. What does this mean for you? Well, instead of being limited to breadcrumbs, you get full context on every crash.
Read more here 👇
Did you know that bitdrift comes with a ton of metrics out of the box, all of which you get just by integrating the bitdrift SDK? 👀
September 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Did you know that bitdrift comes with a ton of metrics out of the box, all of which you get just by integrating the bitdrift SDK? 👀
🚨 The second installment of our series on getting hands-on with bitdrift using the Wikipedia app is live! In this post, we'll show you how to simulate a memory leak & how to detect the symptoms before a crash happens.
Check it out here👇
Check it out here👇
Crashes are loud. Leaks are quiet. - bitdrift Blog
Welcome to the second post in our bitdrift hands-on series! In today’s post, we’ll be talking about memory leaks; those insidious issues that don’t always crash your app, but can make for a janky…
buff.ly
September 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
🚨 The second installment of our series on getting hands-on with bitdrift using the Wikipedia app is live! In this post, we'll show you how to simulate a memory leak & how to detect the symptoms before a crash happens.
Check it out here👇
Check it out here👇
Learn how to take a production-grade app (The Official Wikipedia app for Android), and instrument it with the bitdrift SDK, including all of the existing network calls and custom logs.
Check out the step-by-step guide here 👇
Check out the step-by-step guide here 👇
Instrumenting bitdrift in the Wikipedia app: A step-by-step guide for Android Devs - bitdrift Blog
Welcome to the first post in our bitdrift hands-on series!
blog.bitdrift.io
September 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Learn how to take a production-grade app (The Official Wikipedia app for Android), and instrument it with the bitdrift SDK, including all of the existing network calls and custom logs.
Check out the step-by-step guide here 👇
Check out the step-by-step guide here 👇
When did bitdrift first click for you?
September 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
When did bitdrift first click for you?
bitdrift is 2 years old! 🎂 During that time, we've changed our hypothesis on what really matters in observability:
The initial hypothesis: cost is what matters
The new hypothesis: cost matters, but is a secondary concern
More on what we've learned 👇
The initial hypothesis: cost is what matters
The new hypothesis: cost matters, but is a secondary concern
More on what we've learned 👇
bitdrift turns 2: a retrospective - bitdrift Blog
Recently, bitdrift turned 2! It’s hard to believe that only 2 years have gone by. Startup years are odd; sometimes it feels like it’s been only 6 months. Other times it feels like it’s been 10 years!…
blog.bitdrift.io
September 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
bitdrift is 2 years old! 🎂 During that time, we've changed our hypothesis on what really matters in observability:
The initial hypothesis: cost is what matters
The new hypothesis: cost matters, but is a secondary concern
More on what we've learned 👇
The initial hypothesis: cost is what matters
The new hypothesis: cost matters, but is a secondary concern
More on what we've learned 👇