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OpenTelemetry (OTel) is now the industry standard for observability — but deploying it successfully at scale is still a major challenge. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we dive into the newly launched OpenTelemetry Blueprints initiative: a set of practical reference architectures designed to help Platform Engineering and SRE teams cut through the complexity. We explore the first official blueprints for Kubernetes and traditional infrastructure environments, covering: ✅ How to standardize OTel Collector deployments ✅ Best practices for instrumentation at scale ✅ Building self-service observability platforms ✅ What these blueprints mean for Platform Engineering and SRE teams Whether you're just starting your OpenTelemetry journey or trying to scale it across a large organization, this episode gives you a concrete, actionable framework to move faster and with more confidence. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/67db96d7e512/ 🔔 Subscribe for monthly conversations on open-source observability, OTel, open source and cloud-native monitoring. Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 03:05 - end-user pains with OpenTelemetry adoption 07:49 - enterprise org structure dictates OTel adoption patterns 12:56 - what’s the different between blueprints and reference implementations, and what can you expect of an OTel blueprint 19:46 - how blueprints balance OpenTelemetry’s flexibility with opinionation 23:11 - first blueprint: OpenTelemetry for traditional Environments, virtual machines, bare metal and non-Kubernetes 32:42 - second blueprint: OpenTelemetry for Kubernetes Workloads and managed telemetry 49:08 - third blueprint: Kubernetes monitoring with OpenTelemetry. 56:16 - roadmap for the OpenTelemettry blueprints initiative 1:00:01 - outro Resources: OTel Blueprints: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/guidance/ Blueprints intro blog: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/blueprints-intro/ OpAMP intro and updates: https://horovits.medium.com/operating-opentelemetry-at-scale-with-opamp-737b6af8222b ⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ X (Twitter): @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Dan Gomez Blanco ================ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielgblanco86/  Mastodon: https://mas.to/@dan_gomezblanco  Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dangb.me  Socials: BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social⁠ X (Twitter): ⁠⁠https://x.com/OpenObserv⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/⁠ YouTube:⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalksOpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

OpenTelemetry has officially reached CNCF graduation this month, marking a major milestone for one of the most widely adopted open observability projects. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we unpack what this graduation really means for the project and for users out there.  We also revisit the newest observability signal in OpenTelemetry, Continuous Profiling, which was released in public alpha. We explore where the effort currently stands, the adoption and usage best practices. Finally, we dive into the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiling agent and how it aims to dramatically simplify the adoption of continuous profiling for developers and platform teams. Our guest for this episode is Israel Ogbole, CEO & Co-founder of Zymtrace and member of the OTel Profiling SIG. Prior to founding zymtrace, he served as Principal Product Manager at Elastic, where he led Universal Profiling. He also led the donation of Elastic’s eBPF CPU profiler to OpenTelemetry. Israel also worked at Cisco AppDynamics and at Microsoft, with rich background in observability.  You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/c66dc2cd7d3c Show Notes: 00:00 - episode and guest intro 04:16 - OpenTelemetry reaches CNCF graduation 15:25 - Continuous profiling reaches public Alpha 34:19 - eBPF profiling agent  57:04 - outro Resources: OpenTelemetry reaches CNCF Graduation: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-graduates/  OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/profiles-alpha/  OTel adds the eBPF profiling agent donated by Elastic: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2024/elastic-contributes-continuous-profiling-agent/ Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1   Continuous Profiling: a new observability signal: https://medium.com/p/8afd5bafd498    OTel Profiling SIG established: https://medium.com/p/4a9b407e48cc  eBPF for no-code observability instrumentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDBj5ctKaw&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social X (Twitter): ⁠https://x.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ X (Twitter): @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Israel Ogbole =========== X (Twitter): https://x.com/israel_ogbole LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/israelo/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

VictoriaMetrics is a fascinating open source project for metrics monitoring. In the past couple of years the project has expanded its scope from monitoring to observability, with the addition of VictoriaLogs and VictoriaTraces to the stack. In this episode, Horovits sits for a fireside chat with co-founder and Engineering Manager, Roman Khavronenko, to learn more about it. They discuss the transition, the new projects added to the stack, design considerations, and what’s coming next. Roman is a software engineer with experience in distributed systems, monitoring and high-performance services. Prior to VictoriaMetrics, Roman worked as an engineer at Cloudflare. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/1069cec7892e Resources: VictoriaMetrics on GitHub: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics  VictoriaLogs explainer: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/victorialogs-architecture-basics/  OpenObservability Talks episode with VictoriaMetrics co-founder and CTO Aliaksandr Valialkin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-58C8HFGb8&list=PLPFMHjhoDntve1gm-d5yi0YDBH5VEPaHN&index=37 Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social X (Twitter): ⁠https://x.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ X (Twitter): https://x.com/horovits  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/  BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/horovits.bsky.social  Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovits Roman Khavronenko ================== X (Twitter): https://x.com/hagen1778  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roman-khavronenko-47b51a63/  OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises:  how to remotely manage, configure, and update this agent fleet in a consistent and secure way? This is where Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) comes into the picture: it provides a standardized protocol that lets a central backend automatically configure agents, push updates, monitor their health, and collect status information.  In this episode Horovits hosts Andy Keller, OpAMP Maintainer and Principal Engineer at Bindplane, to discuss how OpAMP makes large-scale observability deployments much easier to operate and control. Andy shares the project status, including hot KubeCon update you don’t want to miss. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/737b6af8222b/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 02:01 - why OpAMP mission statement 04:29 - types of OpenTelemetry Collector fleet deployments 06:49 - from configuration management to observability  10:23 - OpAMP for Kubernetes   15:58 - OpAMP protocol and components 26:54 - OpAMP for remote management of OTel Java SDK and other agents  33:38 - server implementations for OpAMP 36:33 - adopter vendors and end-users  39:14 - project maturity 42:59 - protocol vs. product 47:55 - OpAMP Gateway launch  51:10 - Scale of OTel Collector deployments 54:56 - OpAMP roadmap 59:12 - where to follow the project and Andy 1:02:34 - outro Resources: OpAMP specification: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/opamp/  OpAMP for OpenTelemetry Collector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/cmd/opampsupervisor/specification/README.md  Nike talk at KubeCon on using OpAMP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J68ThM9DqQ0 OpAMP Gateway Extension - launch blog: https://bindplane.com/blog/opamp-for-opentelemetry-managing-collector-fleets-and-introducing-the-new-opamp-gateway-extension Socials: Dotan Horovits ============ X (Twitter): @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Andy Keller ========== X (Twitter): @andykellr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjkeller/ BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social⁠ X (Twitter): ⁠⁠https://x.com/OpenObserv⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/⁠ YouTube:⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠⁠ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

February 2026 the OpenTelemetry community gathered at OTel Unplugged event in Brussels. It was the first time this unconference was held in Europe, bringing together maintainers, contributors, governance committee members, and end usersIn this episode our host Dotan Horovits and guest Juraci Paixão Kröhling will discuss their insights from the event about the current state of the project, roadmap, challenges, community and more. Juraci is a software engineer, a Governance Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and an emeritus maintainer of the Jaeger project, and the co-founder of OllyGarden, an OpenTelemetry-based startup. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/e00f219f7460/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 01:39 - OTel Unplugged background 06:60 - stabilization and graduation 21:49 - OTel blueprints 26:24 - OTel collectors tied to vendors  30:14 - bad telemetry 32:40 - OpenTelemetry-Prometheus compatibility 39:49 - OpenTelemetry Injector 43:07 - OpenTelemetry Weaver 45:33 - Instrumentation Score 51:15 - mobile and browser observability 52:23 - YAML configuration for SDK 55:19 - additional events for OTel community 58:00 - Jaeger v2.15.0 release 1:00:18 - outro  Resources: OTel Unplugged: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-unplugged-fosdem/  OTel OBI for eBPF instrumentation: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1 Mobile observability with OTel: https://medium.com/p/2eb847c41941  OTel Injector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-injector  OTel Weaver and Observability by Design approach: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-weaver/  OTel blueprints proposal: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/3094  Instrumentation Score: https://github.com/instrumentation-score/spec  Jaeger v2.15.0 release: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.15.0  Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social X (Twitter): ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Juraci Paixão Kröhling ================== LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpkroehling/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

In the opening episode of 2026, we mark a major milestone—a decade to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)—with none other than the CNCF’s CTO and co-founder, Chris Aniszczyk. Chris joins host Dotan Horovits on a fascinating fireside chat, looking back at the CNCF’s journey from a bold experiment into a central pillar of modern infrastructure. They discuss the current state of cloud-native, across Kubernetes and an ecosystem of over 200 projects, and share their grounded predictions for 2026 and into the second decade. Beyond his role at the CNCF, Chris Aniszczyk serves as Executive Director of the Open Container Initiative (OCI), and CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure, at The Linux Foundation, the parent organization of the CNCF, OCI, OpenInfra and more. At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts.  You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/479e6bbf793c/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 01:51 - 10th anniversary to the CNCF 06:18 - the expanding scope of cloud native and Kubernetes 14:58 - the community expansion around the world 20:49 - KubeCon Europe 29:30 - consolidation of observability and security 34:00 - intersection of CNCF, FinOps and AI 37:35 - AI-generated code contribution for open source 43:46 - announcing the Agentic AI Foundation and MCP donation 53:00 - outro Resources: Observability for AI workloads: https://medium.com/p/b8972ba1b6baCNCF Ambassador’s Reflections on 10 Years of CNCF: https://medium.com/p/a796646db552 Agentic AI Foundation formation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Chris Aniszczyk =============== Twitter: @cra LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caniszczyk/    Mastodon: @[email protected] OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

Generative AI is everywhere, but how do we monitor and observe it? OpenTelemetry has been a prominent tool and standard for observability, and recently the OTel community has been aiming to expand its scope and cover GenAI workloads with semantic conventions and tools. In this episode, Horovits is joined by Nir Gazit, creator of the OpenLLMetry project, and member of the OpenTelemetry Generative AI SIG. We discuss new semantic conventions, tracing prompts and model behavior, the OpenLLMetry project’s journey, and what observability even means for modern AI systems. Nir Gazit is the CEO and co-founder of Traceloop, and brings a wealth of data and AI experience, with previous experience leading AI teams at Google and serving as the Chief Architect at Fiverr. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/81b9cea6a771/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro  04:09 - what is observability for AI 18:07 - AI observability differences from traditional observability 25:22 - OpenLLMetry intro 41:21 - OpenLLMetry latest updates and roadmap 47:00 - OpenTelemetry GenAI Semantic Conventions SIG 56:03 - KubeCon updates: CrossPlane, Knative, Dragonfly, in-toto reached CNCF graduation  1:00:08 - outro Resources: OpenTelemetry Generative AI Observability SIG: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/1c71595874e5d125ca92ec3b0e948c4325161c8a/projects/llm-semconv.md https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry https://github.com/traceloop/hub https://github.com/traceloop/opentelemetry-mcp-server Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Nir Gazit ======== Twitter: https://x.com/nir_ga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirga/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenTelemetry project, which brings the promise of a multi-language, multi-protocol auto-instrumentation, thanks to a code donation by Grafana Labs.  Our guest today is Mario Macías, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry eBFP Instrument maintainer. Macías joins Horovits to share about OBI, its origins, capabilities and how it fits into the broader OpenTelemetry project.  Mario holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture and for the last 8 years he's been working in observability at different companies. He also authored books in Spanish language, such as "Programación en Go" or "Introducción a Apache Spark".  You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1 Show Notes: 00:00 - episode intro 02:11 - guest intro 05:15 - Beyla origins 08:45 - OBI for app monitoring 14:46 - no-code multi-language instrumentation  23:12 - OBI trace support 33:58 - OBI components 43:39 - Beyla project new focus 47:21 - OTel instrumentation SIG 51:34 - collaboration with other OTel components and SIGs  54:59 - OBI roadmap 59:26 - outro  Resources: OBI on GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/ Grafana Beyla donation: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-beyla-donation/ eBPF for continuous profiling and the Parca project: https://medium.com/p/8afd5bafd498eBPF for tracing and OTel GoLang Auto-instrumentation SIG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFykWV1mLAI&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3DeBPF for Kubernetes monitoring and the Pixie project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDBj5ctKaw&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D&index=52 Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Mario Macías =========== LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariomac/ Mastodon: https://masto.es/@macias Socials: BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/⁠ YouTube:⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠⁠ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means for observability. From event-driven architectures to autoscaling and service runtime, we discuss how these building blocks fit into modern systems. We discuss major capabilities around resilience, scalability, observability and even agentic AI support. Our guest for this episode is Yaron Schneider, co-creator of both Dapr and KEDA projects, and co-founder and CTO of Diagrid. He also brings years of leadership at Microsoft on scalable cloud architecture. You can read the recap posts: Part 1 - Dapr: https://medium.com/p/eb2f4013d9a1/Part 2 - KEDA: https://medium.com/p/d74f75c0021a/ Show Notes: 00:00 - episode intro 01:19 - guest intro and Dapr & KEDA intro 04.53 - why Microsoft created KEDA 14:43 - why Microsoft decided to open-source KEDA 16:58 - why Microsoft created Dapr 24:52 - observability in Dapr 33:38 - shifting from logs to traces  37:46 - building a startup around foundation-led open source 46:22 - agentic AI support in Dapr 49:11 - Dapr updates and roadmap 52:15 - KEDA updates and roadmap 53:50 - Dapr at KubeCon NA 55:08 - Jaeger celebrates 10th anniversary 56:13 - OpenTelemetry Collector user survey 56:58 - proposal for a new OTel SIG for resource metadata semantic conventions 1:00:00 - outro  Resources: Dapr: https://dapr.io/ KEDA: https://keda.sh/  Dapr accepted to graduation, Dec 2024, my LI post: https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:7262354292794159105  Announcing Dapr AI Agents: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/12/announcing-dapr-ai-agents/  Jaeger 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-at-10-forged-in-community-reborn-in-opentelemetry-621d4eabdeda Jaeger v2 and alignment with OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774 Proposal for a new OpenTelemetry SIG: Service and Deployment Semantic Conventions: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2837/  OTel Collector Follow-up Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbpqBcCVfmRj_Rk_Sd6zaBGpfzGSBvSZ6CdVn6PPBbbmPIOw/viewform  Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovits  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/  BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/horovits.bsky.social  Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovits Yaron Schneider ============== Twitter: https://x.com/yaronschneider LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaron-schneider-2130b7a3/  The podcast episodes are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHouse is doubling down on observability with the release of ClickStack, a new open source observability stack that bundles in ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry and  HyperDX frontend.  I invited Mike Shi, the co-founder of HyperDX and co-creator of ClickStack, to tell us all about this new project. Mike is Head of Observability at ClickHouse, and brings prior observability experience with Elasticsearch and more. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/73f129a179a3/ Show Notes: 00:00 episode and guest intro 04:38 taking the open source path as an entrepreneur 10:51 the HyperDX observability user experience  16:08 challenges in implementing observability directly on ClickHouse 20:03 intro to ClickStack and incorporating OpenTelemetry 32:35 balancing simplicity and flexibility 36:15 SQL vs. Lucene query languages  39:06 performance, cardinality and the new JSON type 52:14 use cases in production by OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and more 55:38 episode outro Resources: HyperDX https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx  ClickStack https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clickstack  Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04dd ClickHouse: Breaking the Speed Limit for Observability and Analytics https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e  New JSON data type for ClickHouse: https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-new-powerful-json-data-type-for-clickhouse Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Mike Shi ======= Twitter: https://x.com/MikeShi42 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeshi42 BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mikeshi42.bsky.social OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

We are overdue for a vendor neutral industry wide event dedicated to our favorite topic - open observability. Last month (June 2025) the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ran the first-ever Open Observability Summit, bringing together the world’s best experts in the field in a day packed with talks from project maintainers, end users and practitioners. We’re proud partners of the event, and are here to bring you the highlights from this industry-shaping event. This special episode has two parts, one recorded onsite before the event, covering conference goals, and insights from the talk submissions, and the other recorded after the event, covering the highlights of the events and the talks.  The guests for is episode are two observability veterans: Alok Bhide, member of the event’s content committee and head of product innovation at Chronosphere; and Henrik Rexed, developer advocate at Dynatrace, CNCF Ambassador, and host of Is It Observable podcast. Catch up on everything you need to know from the first-ever Open Observability Summit. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/d42c8826d6a5/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 02:52 - Part 1 pre-event 03:40 - guest intro Alok Bhide 04:49 - a new community event for open observability 06:58 - talk submission highlights from the CFP content reviewer 12:34 - a view of the open observability stack and its use  16:42 - Fluent Bit alignment with OpenTelemetry 20:08 - AI in observability 25:34 - Part 2 talk highlights 26:22 - Fluent Bit vs. OpenTelemetry Collector benchmark analysis 37:51 - OpenSearch 3.1 release 40:47 - eBay’s observability talk 47:00 - Kotlin SDK for OTel talk for Android developers 51:45 - Otel Collector fine-tuning talk 53:52 - Broadcom OTel use case from mobile to mainframe 56:43 - Spotify migration from in-house TSDB to VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus 58:20 - OTel Collector replacement in Rust with the Rotel project 1:00:58 - Noisy neighbors network observability 1:03:04 - rising awareness of OTel semantic conventions  1:05:50 - outro  Resources: Open Observability Summit + OTel Community Day: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-observability-summit-otel-community-day/ eBay innovation with open source observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ycNhzRVSbU&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=35  More on eBay’s journey to planet-scale observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UsU3nRglhA&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D  Spotify talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87koDlpKDR4&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7 Kotlin SDK for OTel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di5nhYvUh6w&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7 More on mobile observability with OTel: https://medium.com/p/2eb847c41941  OpenTelemtry Collector vs. Fluent Bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZho5W9L_Z8&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=8 Telemetry Pipelines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1g5ZWAc1Y&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=30  OTel Collector in Rust with Rotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQnP8Ct7qY&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=16  Rotel project repo: https://github.com/streamfold/rotel   Noisy neighbor detection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVqiOtXTEFA  Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovits  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/  BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/horovits.bsky.social  Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovits Henrik Rexed =========== LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrexed/ BlueSky: @hrexed.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@isitobservable  Alok Bhide ========= LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albhide/

OpenSearch has become a cornerstone of open source search and observability, empowering developers and organizations to derive meaningful insights from unstructured data at scale. The past year marks a significant milestone in its journey, with OpenSearch officially joining The Linux Foundation, further cementing its position in the open source ecosystem. Now, after two years of 2.x, the next major release is here, and it brings significant advancements in performance, data management, vector database functionality, and much more. In this episode we dive into the 3.0 release, across lexical, semantic, and hybrid search, vector database improvements, observability capabilities, performance boosts, and much more. We also look at the community and ecosystem, the recent move of the project under The Linux Foundation, and some of the interesting use cases out there.   Our guests for this episode are Carl Meadows, Chair of the Governing Board of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, and Pallavi Priyadarshini, member of the Technical Steering Committee and the OpenSearch 3.0 release manager. The episode was live-streamed on 9 June 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4T-ksTAmxg You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/fb526e0d44e5/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 03:30 - OpenSearch joins the Linux Foundation 06:05 - the community and Technical Steering Committee 11:39 - why now 3.0? 13:53 - performance improvements 17:55 - vector database and MCP for agentic AI support 23:20 - what's new with observability 30:14 - Discover UI view and anomaly detection 33:55 - the vision for OpenSearch and differentiation 37:33 - Data Prepper ingestion component 44:28 - gRPC and Protobuf support 49:47 - 3.1 release and the 3.x line 55:25 - where to follow and join the community 1:03:12 - outro Resources: OpenSearch 3.0 announcement blog: https://opensearch.org/blog/unveiling-opensearch-3-0/ OpenSearch public roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/opensearch-project/projects/220  OpenSearchCon and other events: https://opensearch.org/events/New Observability Special Interest Group: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7336739972877537281/ Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Carl Meadows ============ Twitter: https://x.com/Carl_F_Meadows LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlfmeadows/ Pallavi Priyadarshini ================= LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pallavipr/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠⁠   ⁠https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠⁠

The ClickHouse® project is a rising star in observability and analytics, challenging performance conventions with its breakneck speed. This open source OLAP column store, originally developed at Yandex to power their web analytics platform at massive scale, has quickly evolved into one of the hottest open source observability data stores around. Its published performance benchmarks have been the topic of conversation, outperforming many legacy databases and setting a new bar for fast queries over large volumes of data. Our guest for this episode is Robert Hodges, CEO of Altinity — the second largest contributor to the ClickHouse project. With over 30 years of experience in databases, Robert brings deep insights into how ClickHouse is challenging legacy databases at scale. We’ll also explore Altinity’s just-launched groundbreaking open source project—Project Antalya—which extends ClickHouse with Apache Iceberg shared storage, unlocking dramatic improvements in both performance and cost efficiency. Think 90% reductions in storage costs and 10 to 100x faster queries, all without requiring any changes to your existing applications. The episode was live-streamed on 20 May 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeyTL2JlWp0 You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠   https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠ Show Notes: 00:00 - Intro 01:38 - ClickHouse elevator pitch 02:46 - guest intro 04:48 - ClickHouse under the hood 08:15 - SQL and the database evolution path  11:20 - the return of SQL 16:13 - design for speed  17:14 - use cases for ClickHouse 19:18 - ClickHouse ecosystem 22:22 - ClickHouse on Kubernetes  31:45 - know how ClickHouse works inside to get the most out of it  38:59 - ClickHouse for Observability 46:58 - Project Antalya 55:03 - Kubernetes 1.33 release 55:32 - OpenSearch 3.0 release 56:01 - New Permissive License for ML Models Announced by the Linux Foundation 57:08 - Outro Resources: ClickHouse on GitHub: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse  Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04dd Project Antalya: https://altinity.com/blog/getting-started-with-altinitys-project-antalya  https://cmtops.dev/posts/building-observability-with-clickhouse/  Kubernetes 1.33 release highlights: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7321054742174924800/  New Permissive License for Machine Learning Models Announced by the Linux Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7331046183244611584   Opensearch 3.0 major release: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/horovits_opensearch-activity-7325834736008880128-kCqr Socials: Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ X (Twitter): @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Robert Hodges ============= LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkeleybob2105/

KubeCon Europe 2025 in London has wrapped up, and we’re bringing you all the highlights, trends, and behind-the-scenes insights straight from the show floor! In this special recap episode, I’m joined by two CNCF Ambassadors and community powerhouses: Kasper Borg Nissen, the Co-Chair of this KubeCon as well as of the KubeCon 2024 editions, and a Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0; and William Rizzo, Consulting Architect at Mirantis and Linkerd Ambassador. Together, we unpack the major themes from the event—from platform engineering and internal developer platforms, to open source observability, and where Kubernetes is headed next. We also chat about the vibe of the community, emerging projects to watch, and important trends in European tech sphere. Whether you missed the conference or want to catch up on important updates you might have missed, this episode gives you a curated take straight from the experts who know the cloud-native space inside out. The episode was live-streamed on 22 April 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxJOmOEBvQ You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/740258a5fa46 OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠   https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 03:28 - KubeCon impressions 09:59 - Backstage turns 5 18:56 - CNCF turns 10 and CNCF annual survey 27:22 - Sovereign cloud in Europe and the NeoNephos initiative 33:55 - CI/CD use in production increases 36:52 - OpenInfra joins the Linux Foundation 40:16 - Cloud native local communities, DEI and the BIPOC initiative  51:11 - Observability query standardization SIG updates 59:36 - outro Resources: CNCF 2024 Annual Survey https://www.cncf.io/reports/cncf-annual-survey-2024/ NeoNephos initiative for sovereign EU cloud: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7313115943075766273/ OpenInfra Foundation and OpenStack join The Linux Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7307839934072066048/ Backstage turns 5: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7318163557206966272/ Kubernetes 1.33 release: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7321054742174924800/ Socials: Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Kasper Borg Nissen =============== Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/phennex LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaspernissen/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/kaspernissen.xyz⁠ William Rizzo =========== Twitter: https://twitter.com/WilliamRizzo19 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-rizzo/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/williamrizzo.bsky.social

Observability into mobile native applications presents unique challenges, from capturing real user interactions to dealing with network constraints and battery efficiency. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we explore the special characteristics of client-side telemetry, and how OpenTelemetry helps generate mobile client telemetry for real user monitoring (RUM), enabling deeper insights into performance and user experience.  We host Hanson Ho, Android architect at Embrace and an approver on the OpenTelemetry Android SDK. Hanson brings a wealth of experience from Twitter, Salesforce and SAP. He will share his expertise on instrumenting mobile apps, the evolution of OpenTelemetry for Android, and best practices for collecting and analyzing mobile telemetry. Tune in to learn how to bring OpenTelemetry-powered observability to your mobile applications! The episode was live-streamed on 17 March 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIid85wO8gc OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠   https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠ Show Notes: 00:00 - Intro 01:42 - the unique characteristics of mobile env 03:39 - Android presents additional challenges 05:41 - observability in everyday frontend dev 12:01 - observability for business metrics in mobile apps 18:28 - collecting telemetry in constrained mobile devices 23:03 - Twitter scale observability into mobile apps 29:01 - how mobile monitoring used to work before OpenTelemetry 33:37 - OpenTelemetry expansion from server-side into client-side telemetry 44:09 - OpenTelemetry Android SDK working group 50:53 - Embrace’s journey into OpenTelemetry 1:00:04 - Outro Resources: OpenTelemetry Android SDK: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-android OpenTelemetry Client SDK and Instrumentation SIG board: https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/projects/19/views/1  Adding client-side support to OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/a389144f3812#2fcf   Socials: Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Hanson Ho ========== LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanson-ho/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bidetofevil.wtf