Open Observability Summit + OTel Community Day 2025

We all have innovative ideas around what has been done on top of Open Source. Sometimes it maybe because of our organization's "specific" need and other times it is because the technology can't simply scale. Sometimes it may be because you are trying new things that are premature to put out. Never the less, it becomes important to manage the constraints effectively. This problem has been the norm at eBay's Observability platform where scale, innovation and organizational demand drives creativity. In this talk we discuss how we have improvised on top technologies like Prometheus, Alertmanager and OpenTelemetry Collector. Some of the ideas we would discuss include:

* enriching alerts using Exemplars
* spanmetrics connector for massively large tracing systems
* scaling tracing backends using clickhouse

At the end of this talk end users would get a sense of new things that can be done on top of existing projects and scaling open source with a little bit of extra love.