OpenObservabilityCon + OTel Community Day 2025

Traditional parent-child span relationships frequently fail to capture the complex workflows of contemporary applications as distributed systems become more complex. A deeper comprehension of asynchronous workflows, parallel processing, and microservice interactions is made possible by OpenTelemetry's introduction of span links, which offer a potent way to correlate related spans outside of the conventional hierarchy.

This session will explore how to leverage span links to enhance trace analysis and gain deep insights into system performance and bottlenecks. Learn how to configure and instrument your code with OpenTelemetry SDKs, visualize span links in OpenSource tools, integrate inside your own environment, and apply these techniques to debug and optimize distributed systems effectively. Attendees will leave with actionable knowledge to harness the full potential of OpenTelemetry for advanced observability and debugging in complex environments.