OpenObservabilityCon + OTel Community Day 2025

As OpenTelemetry adoption grows, so does the volume of telemetry data. But more data doesn’t always mean more insight—it can mean more confusion, higher costs, and longer incident response times. In this session, we’ll explore how engineering teams are evolving their observability practices to manage telemetry sprawl. You’ll learn how to identify the neceesary signals to identify service impacting issues, tune observabiltiy data management strategies, and apply distributed, local processing techniques to observabilty data without losing critical context. We’ll walk through practical examples of what works (and what doesn’t) in modern observability pipelines—and how OpenTelemetry can be used more strategically to improve reliability and performance.