May 2026 at Bindplane: Global Pipeline Intelligence and the CLI AI Skill

The Google Cloud Next 2026 recap covers booth demos, OpenTelemetry and SecOps, and talks from Craig Lee and Laura Luttmer. Watch the recap.

This month we launched the Bindplane AI Skill so you can run Bindplane CLI workflows from an AI coding agent, brought Pipeline Intelligence to GA, shipped SSO for the Growth plan, and released the Azure Event Hub source with distributed partition ownership, including upstream work in the OpenTelemetry Collector. Watch the Community Call recording.

What shipped

The Bindplane CLI now ships with a built-in skill for AI coding assistants. Install it with bindplane skill install on v1.98+ and refresh it after upgrades with bindplane skill update. The skill gives AI tools like Claude Code accurate, version-matched context for Bindplane commands, so it can configure pipelines, manage collectors, and run Bindplane operations for you. Read the docs.

Pipeline Intelligence is in GA. It is now rolled out for all Bindplane customers. See the details.

New features and integrations

• SSO is now available for Growth: You can now use SSO with the Growth plan in addition to Enterprise.
• Toggle edge animations for a Bindplane Configuration: Significant browser performance increase for customers with huge configs.
• Azure Event Hub source: Added a polling source with distributed partition ownership. Read the docs.

What we wrote and where we showed up

This month’s posts focused on migrations, AI-assisted workflows, and field recaps.

• The AI-Native Telemetry Pipeline: Bindplane at Google Cloud Next 2026: OpenTelemetry, SecOps, scale, and live booth demos. Read it here.
• Bindplane now ships with a native AI skill: bring your own agent: How teams can use Bindplane with their own AI agents. Read it here.
• Moving on from MCP: how we built the Bindplane AI skill: How the skill came together. Read it here.
• Faster OpenTelemetry Migrations from Splunk to SecOps with Bindplane: A practical guide for Splunk to Google SecOps migration planning. Read it here.
• Azure Event Hub Distributed Consumption: Publishing shortly, distributed partition ownership and checkpointing upstream in the OTel Collector. Read it here.

New in the docs

There are new and improved layouts for Feature Guides and How-to Guides. New Pipeline Intelligence feature guides shipped, plus SIEM and compliance how-to guides for migrating Sentinel to SecOps and Splunk to SecOps.

What we're working toward

Laura Luttmer joins the Telemetry That Matters panel at Observability Summit NA 2026 in Minneapolis on May 21–22. See the session.

If you have not tried the Bindplane CLI AI skill or Pipeline Intelligence yet, this is a good month to do it.

Bindplane is a platform for building and deploying OpenTelemetry-based telemetry pipelines at scale. Learn more, here.