Open Observability Summit + OTel Community Day 2025
2025-06-26
Denver, United States
as the organisers put it
Open Observability Summit & OTel Community Day bring the observability community together to collaborate and advance open source observability tools & practices.
who it's for
observability engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, backend developers, cloud architects, developer advocates, telemetry pipeline engineers
topics
OpenTelemetry collector; Fluent Bit benchmarking; OpenTelemetry semantic conventions; logging cost optimization; distributed tracing and spans; metric cardinality reduction; telemetry pipelines CI/CD; Rust OpenTelemetry collector; Kotlin API and SDK; Prometheus and Loki integration; hybrid cloud observability; monitoring GenAI applications
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Lightning Talk: Observability-First DevSecOps: Building Resilient Multi-Cloud P... | Ravindra Bhargava | 13m |
Shows a concrete pipeline: OpenTelemetry collectors feed Prometheus/Loki and Grafana across AWS, Azure, GCP with Terraform and ArgoCD, and CI runners emit… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Why Semantic Conventions are OpenTelemetry’s Most Important Con... | Gordon Radlein | 07m |
OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions normalize telemetry at creation so HTTP status, span attributes, and metric labels mean the same across systems, enabling… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Manage Logging Costs While Preserving Value | Alok Bhide | 05m |
Chronosphere announces a Control Plane for logs that surfaces a logs usage analysis screen giving a computed utility score per log and automated… | ||
| Keynote: OpenTelemetry And The Future of Open Source Observability | Austin Parker | 07m |
OpenTelemetry is presented as the de facto plumbing for observability with a single spec and single wire format that major vendors like OpenAI Google Microsoft… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Foundation-Led Innovation: OpenSearch's Impact on Modern Data I... | Dotan Horovits | 06m |
OpenSearch is an Apache-2.0 licensed fork of Elasticsearch that now claims over 1 billion downloads across 130+ repos and 26 releases, moved into the Linux… | ||
| Keynote: Hybrid Cloud Architecture: Making Big Bets on Open Standards | Margaret Dawson | 09m |
Hybrid cloud is framed as a destination with concrete signals: about 39% hybrid adoption, roughly 25–30% of cloud spend wasted, and 20–21% of orgs repatriating… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Austin Parker | 04m |
Event announces the merging of Open Observability Summit and OTel Community Day with two parallel tracks covering concrete OpenTelemetry implementations and… | ||
| Telemetry Showdown: Fluent Bit Vs. OpenTelemetry Collector - A Comprehensive Benchma... | Henrik Rexed | 24m |
Benchmarks compare Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry Collector across logs traces and metrics using HipsterOp and OpenTelemetry demo apps with load ramps, soak… | ||
| How To Think About Instrumentation Overhead | Jason Plumb | 24m |
Instrumentation consumes CPU, memory, startup time and bandwidth and that cost is often roughly constant per span so latency percentages are lies: percentage… | ||
| No Dependencies. No Plugins. Just Native OpenTelemetry | Liudmila Molkova | 18m |
Azure SDKs for Java implement an optional runtime dependency pattern: library code calls an internal abstraction and uses reflection to enable OpenTelemetry… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Austin Parker | 01m |
Event declares a one-day program a clear success and asks attendees to complete the postevent survey; it lists sponsors explicitly as Chronosphere, Data Dog… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Beyond Good Enough: Why We Want a Kotlin API and SDK | Hanson Ho | 13m |
Embrace wants an idiomatic Kotlin path because Java APIs are merely workable on Android and break for Kotlin Multiplatform and fragile mobile runtimes. A pure… | ||
| Lightning Talk: From Zero To Developer: My One Year Serendipity Journey With OpenTele... | Virginia Diana Todea | 16m |
Built a proof of concept using NodeJS and PHP SDKs that reaches staging but does not go to production due to limited engineering headcount, European compliance… | ||
| The Spec-tacular Game Show | Liudmila Molkova, Ted Young, Tyler Helmuth, Jamie Danielson, Alex Boten | 27m |
A fast paced game show that reads wrong OpenTelemetry claims and fixes them on the spot: expect clarifications like spec limits memory consumption (no… | ||
| Building Resilient Telemetry Pipelines: Mastering the OpenTelemetry Collector's Per... | Denton Krietz | 24m |
Explains how the OpenTelemetry Collector implements a durable queue by pairing the sending queue in exporter_helper (FIFO, workers dequeuing with independent… | ||
| Introducing a Lightweight Rust OpenTelemetry Collector | Mike Heffner, Ray Jenkins | 29m |
Rotel is a Rust OpenTelemetry collector that ships as a tiny, open source binary and targets serverless, edge, and high‑scale sidecar use cases. It accepts and… | ||
| The Life of a Span | Yuri Oliveira, OllyGarden, Jamie Danielson | 22m |
Follows an instrumented application as an OpenTelemetry span is created by a tracer, picks up resource attributes and a traceID/spanID, gains… | ||
| Building Composable OTel Pipelines: CI/CD, Testing, Team-First, and Sca... | Anil Kuncham, Joe Canuel | 21m |
DoorDash describes a production OpenTelemetry pipeline that runs 100 TB/day of logs and handles 15M+ spans/sec using a mirrored collector-contrib repo, an… | ||
| Let's Generate Art and Traces! | Tiffany Jernigan | 25m |
A Spring Boot application stores prompts in Postgres, calls OpenAI via Spring AI to generate images, and saves results for display; the system uses three… | ||
| Correlating Application and Database Performance Using OpenTelemetry | Lin Lin, Tammy Baylis | 22m |
OpenTelemetry’s sqlcommenter injects traceparent and driver metadata into SQL comments so client spans can be matched to server logs; SolarWinds wires OTel… | ||
| Monitoring GenAI Applications | Prasad Mujumdar | 23m |
Monocle ships a spec plus Python and TypeScript SDKs and a VS Code extension that generate OpenTelemetry-compatible traces with little or no code change… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Get Started with OTel in 15 minutes - The JavaScript Journey | Lisa Jung | 12m |
Demo shows a Node.js app auto-instrumented to send OTLP traces through a local OTel Collector into Jaeger using Docker Compose, with live logs and UI… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Introducing Distrogen: A Tool for Generating OpenTelemetry Collecto... | Braydon Kains | 12m |
A tool that takes a simple distribution spec and generates OCB manifests, GoReleaser config, Dockerfiles and Makefiles so builds, images and releases are… | ||
| Tricked Out Traces | Henrik Rexed | 27m |
Sampling choices determine what traces survive at scale: using OpenTelemetry Collector with the spanmetrics connector preserves 100% of request metrics before… | ||
| Decoding OpenTelemetry(OTel) Collector: A Deep Dive into Architecture | Yang Song | 26m |
Explains how the Collector builds YAML-defined pipelines into a graph and starts them in reverse topological order so exporters start before receivers, and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Taming Metric Cardinality: Practical Cost Reduction Wit... | Jon Reeve, Eric Anderson | 13m |
Shows how the OpenTelemetry Collector plus OTTL rules cut explosive metric cardinality (examples show up to a million potential time series) and can cut… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Weaving Legacy and OpenTelemetry: A Schema Strategy With Weaver | Andrew Wang | 13m |
Comcast describes a migration that uses Weaver to merge OpenTelemetry semantic conventions with an injected legacy namespace, producing Elasticsearch JSON… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Bridging Silos: Real‑Time DevSecOps Telemetry for Container Def... | Balasaheb Salunke | 09m |
Shows a working open source pipeline that enriches eBPF events with OpenTelemetry context, combines Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, Jaeger traces and… | ||
| Telemetry Pipelines: Never Gonna Let You Down | Yuri Oliveira, OllyGarden, Alex Boten | 20m |
Explains concrete fixes for lost observability: use the OpenTelemetry Collector with an OTLP exporter to avoid routing collector-metrics through the pipeline… | ||
| Scaling OpenTelemetry for Modern Workloads: From Mobile To Ma... | Vashistha Kumar Singh, Martin Tali | 26m |
Shows how a production backend ingests OpenTelemetry at scale: an OpenTelemetry Collector based pipeline with a custom DXO2 exporter, stateful metric ingesters… | ||
| The Signal in the Storm: Practical Strategies for Managing Telemetry Overload | Endre Sara | 27m |
Argues that turning raw traces, logs and metrics into entities as first-class signal plus explicit relationships cuts telemetry from gigabytes to kilobytes per… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Avoiding Chaotic Dysfunction: The ‘Don’t Do This’ Guide T... | Budhaditya Bhattacharya | 17m |
OpenTelemetry is running in production for about two years inside an API platform used by enterprise and financial customers, instrumenting a GraphQL pipeline… | ||
| Beyond OTLP: Unlocking the Potential of OS-native Tracing | Cijo Thomas, Chris Gray | 27m |
Describes writing OpenTelemetry records into kernel-backed ETW and user_events buffers so exports are synchronous, per-CPU, and lock-free — measured as up to… | ||
| Innovating on Top of Open Source Observability - Pushing the Boundaries o... | Vijay Samuel, Wei Tang | 21m |
eBay explains concrete engineering: a leaf/zone/root layered architecture that keeps Prometheus TSDB unchanged while adding an indexer, remote_write/read… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Faster Insights and Improved Accuracy: Spotify's Prometheus Upgrade | Lauren Roshore | 12m |
Spotify replaces Heroic with VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus, completing a two year migration that yields 10x faster queries and large cost savings. Migration… | ||
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