Open Observability Summit + OTel Community Day 2025: Full Schedule

June 26, 2025
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8:00am MDT

Registration + Badge Pickup

Thursday June 26, 2025 8:00am - 5:00pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Thursday June 26, 2025 8:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Registration

9:00am MDT

Welcome + Opening Remarks - Austin Parker, Honeycomb

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:00am - 9:05am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Speakers

Austin Parker

Director of Open Source, honeycomb.io

Austin is Director of Open Source at honeycomb.io, an OpenTelemetry maintainer and governance member, author of several books, and all around great person.

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:00am - 9:05am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Keynote Sessions

Level Any

9:08am MDT

Keynote: Hybrid Cloud Architecture: Making Big Bets on Open Standards - Margaret Dawson, Chronosphere

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:08am - 9:18am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Hybrid cloud isn’t a stepping stone—it’s a destination. With 39% of CNCF survey respondents already operating in hybrid environments, this model is here to stay. But as teams pursue cloud-native architectures, many skip a critical step: developing a clear cloud strategy and an observability approach to match.
The result is predictable— widening visibility gaps, redundant tooling and data, and spiraling costs as teams try to stitch together disconnected, vendor-specific systems never meant to work in concert. Hybrid environments expose these issues quickly, especially when workloads span multiple platforms without a unified way to observe and understand them.
Modernization efforts demand open observability from the start—not as an add-on. Technologies like OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, and Prometheus act as connective tissue across clouds, clusters, and on-prem infrastructure, enabling standardization where it’s needed most.
This talk outlines how to center open observability in your modernization journey: where to standardize architectural layers, how to maintain a more open approach, and why these decisions have long-term payoff.
Hybrid complexity is inevitable. Leading with open observability is how you stay in control—now and in the future.

Speakers

Margaret Dawson

Chief Marketing Officer and Open Source Evangelist, Chronosphere

Margaret Dawson is an acclaimed writer and speaker on emerging technologies, open source, and the convergence of business and technology. A twenty-five-year tech industry veteran, she has led enterprise open-source initiatives for Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and, currently, Fluent... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:08am - 9:18am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Keynote Sessions

Level Any

9:21am MDT

9:29am MDT

Keynote: OpenTelemetry And The Future of Open Source Observability - Austin Parker, Honeycomb

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:29am - 9:39am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Speakers

Austin Parker

Director of Open Source, honeycomb.io

Austin is Director of Open Source at honeycomb.io, an OpenTelemetry maintainer and governance member, author of several books, and all around great person.

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:29am - 9:39am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Keynote Sessions

Level Any

9:42am MDT

Sponsored Keynote: Manage Logging Costs While Preserving Value - Alok Bhide, Chronosphere

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:42am - 9:47am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Logs can get very expensive and often how useful all those logs are is unknown, some are but many are not. It is very difficult to know which logs are useful and how exactly they are used. With Chronosphere's Control plane for logs users can now get a comprehensive analysis of value and usage patterns, along with sophisticated recommendations and control actions that allow some or most of the value derived from those logs to be preserved. In order to achieve our goals we have enhanced Fluent Bit to be more flexible in which logs are actioned upon and will share useful future additions to it.

Speakers

Alok Bhide

Head of Product Innovation, Chronosphere

Alok has spent the bulk of his 15+ year career in Observability with a very specific focus on logging having worked at Splunk, SentinelOne (running the logging product) and now at Chronosphere. His current passion in the space is to help users reduce the cost of logging while trying... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:42am - 9:47am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Keynote Sessions

Level Any

9:50am MDT

Sponsored Keynote: Why Semantic Conventions are OpenTelemetry’s Most Important Contribution - Gordon Radlein, Datadog

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:50am - 9:55am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OpenTelemetry has accelerated the commoditization of instrumentation. Telemetry generation is becoming a solved problem, an implementation detail. But this has created a new challenge: a wealth of standardized signals with no standard meaning. Different systems instrumented with different semantics generating telemetry in their own unique language. And while signal correlation connects specific workloads, it fails when we need to understand our systems at a macro scale by joining disparate datasets.
That is, until we all agreed to speak the same language.

Just as English as a lingua franca fueled progress across the internet, OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions are providing a shared language for our systems. In this talk we’ll discuss why semantic interoperability is the real connective tissue, how it’s fueling deeper insights into our production environments, and the key role it plays in enabling the AI systems that are rapidly ushering in the next revolution of our industry.

Speakers

Gordon Radlein

Director, Engineering, Datadog

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:50am - 9:55am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Keynote Sessions

Level Any

9:58am MDT

Keynote: Supercharging Observability with LLMs - Alolita Sharma, Apple

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:58am - 10:08am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Today, we face distributed systems of exascale complexity that far exceed human comprehension. Traditional observability tools are no longer enough. But what if we could fundamentally redefine observability?

Enter Large Language Models. LLMs aren't just tools anymore; they're becoming the entire observability toolchain.

This talk will explore compelling, real-world examples demonstrating how LLMs are redefining what's possible. The observability paradigm shift is here, enabling profound understanding, rapid prediction of actionable insights, and the realization of truly self-healing systems. Embrace the future. It's already here.

Speakers

Alolita Sharma

OpenTelemetry Maintainer, GB & End User TAB, Apple

Alolita Sharma is a member of OpenTelemetry GC, Observability TAG co-chair, CNCF End-User TAB Chair and Governing Board member. She leads Apple’s AIML observability teams. She contributes to open source, open standards at OpenTelemetry, Unicode, W3C. She has served on the boards... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:58am - 10:08am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Keynote Sessions

Level Any

10:08am MDT

Coffee and Networking Break

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:08am - 10:25am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C Foyer (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:08am - 10:25am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C Foyer (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Breaks

Level Any

10:25am MDT

Building Composable OTel Pipelines: CI/CD, Testing, Team-First, and Scalable Design - Anil Kuncham & Joe Canuel, DoorDash

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:25am - 10:50am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Are you aiming to construct scalable, vendor-agnostic OpenTelemetry (OTel) pipelines? Do you want to leverage your organization's Git repository structure, CI/CD pipelines, and unit and integration testing frameworks? Are you looking to adopt industry-standard engineering best practices? Do you want to promote collaborative contributions from Observability team members to a unified codebase? Explore how the DoorDash observability team implements this approach in their technical talk. The DoorDash Observability team has developed 28 in-house OTel components to power pipelines for logs, traces, and metrics at scale, processing 100TB of log data a day and processing over 15 million spans per second. These pipelines incorporate a mix of different architectures, security tooling, and cost-efficient designs. Through running multiple pipelines, we continuously apply our learnings to improve overall performance. Join us to unlock the strategies for building scalable, maintainable, and collaborative OTel pipelines that grow with your needs!

Speakers

Anil Kuncham

Software Engineer, DoorDash

Anil Kuncham is a software engineer on DoorDash’s Observability team, where he’s shaping a unified observability platform that bridges mobile clients and backend systems. He’s passionate about building efficient telemetry systems that tell a more accurate and actionable story... Read More →

Joe Canuel

Software Engineer, DoorDash

Software Engineer working on the Observability team at DoorDash. Been in the SRE and Observability space for 10 years, including at Spotify and a handful of startups. Located around Boston.

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:25am - 10:50am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Level Intermediate

10:25am MDT

The Life of a Span - Yuri Oliveira, OllyGarden & Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:25am - 10:50am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

In the world of distributed systems and observability, spans are the fundamental building blocks that enable us to understand system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize our applications. But what really happens when a span is created? How does it flow through an OpenTelemetry pipeline, interact with other spans, and ultimately surface in an observability backend?

In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the life of an OpenTelemetry span—from its birth in an instrumented application to its final visualization in an observability backend. We’ll explore the various components of OpenTelemetry that interact with spans, including tracers, processors, exporters, and propagators. Using an example application and relying on OpenTelemetry’s default configurations, we’ll follow the span’s journey step by step, gaining insight into how context propagation, data enrichment, and trace exporting work under the hood

Speakers

Jamie Danielson

Senior Software Engineer, Honeycomb

Jamie is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb where she works on instrumentation libraries. She is an active contributor to multiple OpenTelemetry projects, and is a maintainer for OpenTelemetry JavaScript. When she’s not working she’s playing dek hockey.

Yuri Oliveira

Software Engineer, OllyGarden

Yuri Oliveira has dedicated his career to helping companies elevate their infrastructure automation to the next level. With 15 years of experience in critical environments as a SysAdmin, SRE, and DevOps Engineer, he has worked on designing resilient systems and streamlining operations... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:25am - 10:50am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, OpenTelemetry In-Depth

Level Beginner

10:55am MDT

Telemetry Showdown: Fluent Bit Vs. OpenTelemetry Collector - A Comprehensive Benchmark Analysis - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:55am - 11:20am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

In a push to standardize observability practices, the cloud-native community has embraced OpenTelemetry, offering a unified framework for metrics, logs, and traces. Prior to this, log processing relied on agents like fluent, evolving into fluentbit. With fluentbit's recent expansion to support additional signals and the OpenTelemetry Collector's emergence, a pertinent question arises: Which is the superior choice for performance?

This session delves into:
- Unveiling the distinctions between Fluent Bit and the OpenTelemetry Collector.
- Sharing the findings derived from a series of benchmark tests.
- Providing valuable insights to empower the community in selecting the most fitting agent for their cloud-native environments.

Speakers

Henrik Rexed

Cloud native advocate, Dynatrace

Henrik is a Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace and a CNCF Ambassador. Prior to Dynatrace, Henrik has worked more than 15 years, as Performance Engineer. Henrik Rexed Is Also one of the Organizer of the conferences named WOPR, KCD Austria and the owner of the Youtube Channel IsitO... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:55am - 11:20am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, CNCF Observability Projects

Level Intermediate

10:55am MDT

Scaling OpenTelemetry for Modern Workloads: From Mobile To Mainframe - Vashistha Kumar Singh & Martin Tali, Broadcom

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:55am - 11:20am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

As Kubernetes and microservices architectures grow in importance and complexity, observability at scale remains a persistent challenge, particularly for cloud-native applications. This session focuses on how OpenTelemetry can help organizations bridge these gaps, offering comprehensive visibility across modern workloads - from mobile devices to mainframe systems.

We will showcase how OpenTelemetry integrates with complex infrastructures and unifies observability across both mainframe and distributed applications in a single pane of glass. We’ll explore techniques used to scale OpenTelemetry in high-cardinality environments, highlighting how we scaled the OpenTelemetry Collector to handle 3 million metric points per second, manage 250 million unique metrics per day and process 0.5 million spans per second.

Speakers

Vashistha Kumar Singh

Head of Engineering, Data Ingestion, Broadcom

Vashistha Kumar Singh is Head of Engineering, Data Ingestion for AIOps and Observability solutions from Broadcom, With 20 years of engineering experience as tester, developer, technical architect manager and leader, he leads the data ingestion team for these solutions. For both third... Read More →

Martin Tali

Software Architect, Broadcom

Martin Tali is a Software Architect at Broadcom with 30 years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed enterprise software systems. For the past 15 years, he has specialized in designing, implementing, and optimizing Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:55am - 11:20am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Deploying and Scaling OpenTelemetry

Level Intermediate

11:25am MDT

Correlating Application and Database Performance Using OpenTelemetry - Lin Lin & Tammy Baylis, SolarWinds

Thursday June 26, 2025 11:25am - 11:50am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OpenTelemetry captures database operations from the client perspective, in the context of an originating resource, application and request. How can this insight be matched to observations about the database server? This talk focuses on the sqlcommenter feature in OTel which propagates trace context in SQL queries, so that client- and server-side observations can be correlated to answer questions like “is this request slow due to the state of the database” and “where are the expensive queries to this database coming from".

We’ll briefly describe the challenge of context propagation, give an overview of the current state of sqlcommenter implementation in OTel SDKs, demonstrate the enriched correlation that can be built from it, and highlight limitations and pitfalls found along the way in adapting it into our product.

This talk aims to give viewers a good understanding of the OTel sqlcommenter feature and the integrated performance insight that it makes possible.

Speakers

Tammy Baylis

Staff Software Engineer, SolarWinds

Tammy is a developer at SolarWinds, specializing in instrumentation for APM. She is an active contributor to OpenTelemetry with a passion for Python.

Lin Lin

Engineering Manager, SolarWinds

I manage a team that works on the APM product for SolarWinds, specifically OTel and instrumentation.

Thursday June 26, 2025 11:25am - 11:50am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, CNCF Observability Projects

Level Any

11:25am MDT

The Signal in the Storm: Practical Strategies for Managing Telemetry Overload - Endre Sara, Causely, Inc.

Thursday June 26, 2025 11:25am - 11:50am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

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.

Speakers

Endre Sara

Co-Founder, Causely, Inc.

Endre is a Co-Founder of Causely, where he’s building the IT industry’s first causal reasoning. Previously, Endre was VP of Advanced Engineering at Turbonomic. Prior to Turbonomic, Endre was a VP at Goldman Sachs. Endre holds an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 11:25am - 11:50am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Practical OpenTelemetry

Level Beginner

11:55am MDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Faster Insights and Improved Accuracy: Spotify's Prometheus Upgrade - Lauren Roshore, Spotify

Thursday June 26, 2025 11:55am - 12:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Spotify replaced its in-house TSDB (Heroic) with VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus, achieving 10x faster query speeds and significant cost savings. The 2 year migration addressed stability, performance, and stakeholder dissatisfaction with Heroic's slow queries and bespoke nature. After evaluating alternatives, VictoriaMetrics was chosen for its speed, cost efficiency, Prometheus compatibility, and self-hosted flexibility. Challenges included migrating from Heroic's overly flexible data model and often misused HQL to Prometheus's standardized structure and best-practice PromQL, a necessary shift for improved data quality and query efficiency. The migration involved updating metric agents, adapting alert management, and a significant fleetshift. Benefits included improved dashboard loading times, faster alerting, more accurate data, and alignment with industry standards.

Speakers

Lauren Roshore

Engineering Manager, Spotify

Spotify Engineering Manager in Core Infrastructure, leading the Observability and Reliability team. 9+ years in SRE/Engineering roles.

Thursday June 26, 2025 11:55am - 12:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, Scalability Challenges and Solutions

Level Any

11:55am MDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Beyond Good Enough: Why We Want a Kotlin API and SDK - Hanson Ho, Embrace

Thursday June 26, 2025 11:55am - 12:10pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

The OTel Java API, SDK, and ecosystem are perfectly adequate for Android developer to get OTel instrumentation into their apps. But for a host of reasons, the match is not perfect, especially for developers who only write in Kotlin, which is the recommended development language for Android by Google, not the least of which is the emergence of Kotlin Multiple Platform (KMP) as a means to share code between Android, iOS, and many other platforms.

This session will outline the reasons why we at Embrace is trying to kick-start the development of a pure Kotlin ecosystem for OTel, starting with an API and SDK implementation, and how we are doing it in a way where mobile developers can get value incrementally without having to wait until every aspect is fully built out.

We want OTel to feel natural and idiomatic for Android developers, and this is the first step towards that end.

Speakers

Hanson Ho

Android Architect, Embrace

Hanson's niche is mobile observability and performance, an odd passion he developed while working at Twitter as Android Performance Tech Lead. He is now at Embrace, hoping to bring true observability 2.0 to mobile apps everywhere, one device at a time.

Thursday June 26, 2025 11:55am - 12:10pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Extending and Customizing OpenTelemetry

Level Intermediate

12:15pm MDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Weaving Legacy and OpenTelemetry: A Schema Strategy With Weaver - Andrew Wang, Comcast

Thursday June 26, 2025 12:15pm - 12:30pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Migrating from proprietary tracing systems to OpenTelemetry can be challenging, especially when applications rely on custom span and resource attributes that do not align with semantic conventions. Organizations need a strategy to unify legacy telemetry with OpenTelemetry standards without disrupting existing queries, visualizations, or alerts.

This session presents a real-world case study from Comcast, highlighting how the OpenTelemetry Weaver tool was used to create a unified schema combining semantic conventions with existing attributes. This approach allows teams to gradually adopt standard attributes while maintaining compatibility with current setups, ensuring continuity and reducing migration friction.

The session details how Weaver was configured using Jinja templates to generate outputs in multiple formats—JSON, YAML, and Markdown—supporting backend ingestion and schema documentation. This enabled consistency across pipelines and improved clarity for engineering teams reviewing trace attribute definitions. The talk also highlights how flexible namespacing integrated domain-specific attributes alongside standardized ones without sacrificing backend compatibility.

Speakers

Andrew Wang

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Comcast

Andrew Wang is a Software Engineer at Comcast, developing solutions in Observability. He focuses on tracing services and has worked on automating logging services, anomaly detection in metrics, and application monitoring via synthetics. His projects range from prototyping network... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 12:15pm - 12:30pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, End-User Case Studies

Level Beginner

12:15pm MDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Avoiding Chaotic Dysfunction: The ‘Don’t Do This’ Guide To OpenTelemetry - Budhaditya Bhattacharya, Tyk

Thursday June 26, 2025 12:15pm - 12:30pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Just throw OpenTelemetry in your code and hope for the best - what could possibly go wrong?
OpenTelemetry is a powerful tool, but without a clear plan or governance process, chaos reigns supreme!

In this session, we’ll explore the common mistakes made when implementing OpenTelemetry, from over-instrumenting APIs to drowning in excessive traces, logs, and metrics, to why an "instrument-first, plan later" approach is a recipe for disaster.

You’ll learn how to avoid these pitfalls and build a well-structured, efficient observability strategy that provides actionable insights without overwhelming your systems. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this talk will equip you with the right mindset and tools to make OpenTelemetry work for you, not against you.

Speakers

Budhaditya Bhattacharya

Director of Product Ecosystems, Tyk

Budha is the director of product ecosystems at Tyk, where he leads product education, ecosystem expansion, and open standards adoption. As the board chair of the OpenAPI Initiative, he is responsible for membership growth and driving the adoption of OAS, Arazzo, and Overlays... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 12:15pm - 12:30pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Practical OpenTelemetry

Level Any

12:30pm MDT

Lunch Break

Thursday June 26, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Thursday June 26, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Breaks

Level Any

1:30pm MDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Observability-First DevSecOps: Building Resilient Multi-Cloud Pipelines With OpenTelemetry and GitOps - Ravindra Bhargava, UPS

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 1:45pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

In today’s cloud-native world, ensuring visibility, reliability, and security across multi-cloud environments is critical. As GitOps adoption grows, observability must evolve in parallel to support performance, compliance, and resilience.

In this session, I’ll share how we built an observability-first DevSecOps pipeline using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, and ArgoCD across GCP, Azure, and AWS. I’ll cover how we embedded telemetry into CI/CD, cut MTTR by 35%, and optimized cloud performance and costs with real-world metrics.

We'll explore common anti-patterns when scaling observability in GitOps workflows—and how to overcome them. I’ll also show how we aligned observability data with business KPIs to drive better stakeholder decisions.

Attendees will leave with a practical blueprint for implementing open-source observability at scale in secure, automated pipelines.

Speakers

Ravindra Bhargava

Lead Software Development Engineer, UPS

Leads DevSecOps for app modernization on Google Cloud. Strong infra & platform eng background at UPS.

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, Integrating Observability into DevOps Practices

Level Intermediate

1:30pm MDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Introducing Distrogen: A Tool for Generating OpenTelemetry Collector Distributions - Braydon Kains, Google

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 1:45pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

ocb is a great tool for actually building Collectors, but there is a lot more to managing a Collector build than the actual build step. I built a tool called distrogen that aims to address, which automatically generates helpful templates for builds, updates, Docker image management, and much more! This talk is an introduction on what the tool does and how to use it yourself.

Speakers

Braydon Kains

Software Developer, Google

Braydon is a software developer at Google Cloud working on the Ops Agent. Under the GitHub username @braydonk you can find his contributions in Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry repos, and various auxiliary repos. He is also the creator and maintainer of the yamlfmt tool.

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Deploying and Scaling OpenTelemetry

Level Intermediate

1:50pm MDT

Get Started with OTel in 15 minutes - The JavaScript Journey - Lisa Jung, Grafana

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:50pm - 2:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Getting started with OTel could be a doozy when you are a newcomer.

Want to skip the frustration and learn how to use OTel to collect, process, export, and visualize telemetry data in 25 minutes?

Join Lisa Jung, the creator of the OTel for Beginners series to:
- auto-instrument an app
- send telemetry data to the OTel collector for simple processing
- configure the OTel collector to send telemetry data to an OTLP compliant backend
- visualize telemetry data

Speakers

Lisa Jung

Staff Developer Advocate, Grafana

Lisa Jung is a staff developer advocate at Grafana Labs and a member of the OTel End User SIG and Communications SIG.Her passion is to remove the suffering and frustration that developers experience while learning a new technology. She is the creator of Beginner’s Crash Course to... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:50pm - 2:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Practical OpenTelemetry

Level Beginner

1:50pm MDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: From Zero To Developer: My One Year Serendipity Journey With OpenTelemetry - Diana Todea, Aircall

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:50pm - 2:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Becoming a contributor to an open-source project is a transformative step in any developer's career. This session explores the journey from first-time contributor to active developer, covering best practices for navigating project communities, understanding codebases, and making meaningful contributions. Learn strategies for selecting the right project, mastering collaboration tools, and embracing the culture of open-source development. The audience will be inspired about my one year journey with the open source project OpenTelemetry and how I have built a proof of concept for it and achieved developer status for this project. By the end of this talk, the public will gain insights into the tools to become a better developer and how to build more engagement with the community.

Speakers

Diana Todea

Technical Advocate, Aircall

Diana is a Developer Advocate at Aircall. She has worked as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Observability. She is passionate about serverless, SecOps and machine learning. She is an active contributor to the OpenTelemetry open source project and supports women in te... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:50pm - 2:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Practical OpenTelemetry

Level Any

2:10pm MDT

Telemetry Pipelines: Never Gonna Let You Down - Yuri Oliveira, OllyGarden & Alex Boten, Honeycomb

Thursday June 26, 2025 2:10pm - 2:35pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

In cloud-native environments, telemetry pipelines are expected to be reliable, especially when everything else isn't. Unfortunately, it's exactly in these critical moments that your observability setup might decide to take an unexpected break.

In this session, we'll explore proven strategies for building robust telemetry pipelines that won't abandon you mid-incident. You'll learn practical techniques for configuring a continuous data ingestion, how to manage telemetry streams effectively, and be resilient enough to survive backend disruptions.

Join us to discover how to keep your observability data flowing smoothly—because your OpenTelemetry Collector should never give you up, never let you down, and certainly never run around and desert you when you need it most.

Speakers

Yuri Oliveira

Software Engineer, OllyGarden

Alex Boten

Staff Software Engineer, Honeycomb

Alex Boten is a staff software engineer that has spent the last ten years helping organizations adapt to a cloud-native landscape by mashing keyboards. From building core network infrastructure to mobile client applications and everything in between, Alex has first-hand knowledge... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 2:10pm - 2:35pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, CNCF Observability Projects

Level Beginner

2:10pm MDT

Tricked Out Traces - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace

Thursday June 26, 2025 2:10pm - 2:35pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Starting an observability journey is exciting—those first traces and metrics unlock valuable insights. But scaling to production often brings cost challenges, especially with distributed tracing, where strategic sampling is key to balancing visibility and expense.

In this session, we’ll share techniques how to trick out your traces using the OpenTelemetry Collector:

- Tail-Based Sampling & Filters: Capture critical errors and behaviors without unnecessary data.
- Spanmetrics Connector: Gain precise response time metrics for sharper analysis.
- Structured Event Conversion: Transform span events into actionable analytics for targeted troubleshooting.
We’ll also explore the resource and cost implications of various sampling configurations, ensuring efficiency without overspending. By the end, you’ll have practical strategies to enhance your traces and maximize the value of your observability setup.

Speakers

Henrik Rexed

Cloud native advocate, Dynatrace

Thursday June 26, 2025 2:10pm - 2:35pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, OpenTelemetry In-Depth

Level Intermediate

2:40pm MDT

No Dependencies. No Plugins. Just Native OpenTelemetry - Liudmila Molkova, Microsoft

Thursday June 26, 2025 2:40pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

The best telemetry starts at the source—inside the client libraries.
But in most cases, that means taking a dependency on the OpenTelemetry API from your library. And while it’s stable, minimal, reliable, and safely no-op unless configured—transitive dependencies are still the bane of any library developer’s existence, and most of us try to avoid them.

To work around this, people reach for abstractions, plugins, bridges, or even OTel forks that break context propagation. The result? A poor user experience. Users must find the right plugin, install it, wire it up—and still hit the diamond dependency problem, now it just affects a subset of users.

But what if you could take a truly optional dependency? If OpenTelemetry is on the classpath, instrumentation kicks in. If it’s not, no harm done.
How hard is that to pull off? How reliable? How performant?

Let’s explore that—through the lens of the next generation of Azure SDKs for Java. Spoiler: it’s easy and fast, and as a side-bonus, we can fall back to logs-based tracing if OTel is not found.

Speakers

Liudmila Molkova

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Liudmila Molkova is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft working on observability and Azure client libraries. She is a co-author of distributed tracing implementations across the .NET ecosystem including HTTP client instrumentation and Azure Functions. Liudmila is an active... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 2:40pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, Innovations in Open Source Observability

Level Intermediate

2:40pm MDT

Beyond OTLP: Unlocking the Potential of OS-native Tracing - Cijo Thomas & Chris Gray, Microsoft Corporation

Thursday June 26, 2025 2:40pm - 3:05pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTLP has become the de-facto standard for exporting telemetry in OpenTelemetry, but its reliance on networking (TCP) and batching introduces challenges-CPU contention, memory overhead, potential data loss during crashes, and complex retry and back-pressure handling.

This session explores a powerful alternative: leveraging OS-native tracing mechanisms—ETW (Event Tracing for Windows) and Linux user_events—to export telemetry synchronously via kernel-backed buffers. These mechanisms eliminate batching, network stack overhead, and retry logic, offering exceptional performance and reliability. Moreover, they are naturally suited for dynamic, on-demand telemetry, allowing telemetry to be enabled or disabled without restarts or redeployments—ideal for large-scale systems needing minimal overhead when telemetry is off.

Attendees will learn how ETW and user_events work, how they integrate with OpenTelemetry (without needing re-instrumentation), and how event listeners (e.g., the OTel Collector) can forward data via OTLP—preserving existing pipelines while gaining advanced observability features like capturing call stacks or triggering actions (e.g., process dumps) on specific events.

Speakers

Cijo Thomas

Software Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

Cijo is a Software Engineer at Microsoft specializing in Observability. He has been deeply involved with the OpenTelemetry project since its inception and is a core maintainer for the OpenTelemetry .NET and OpenTelemetry Rust implementations. His expertise extends beyond OpenTelemetry... Read More →

Chris Gray

Partner Architect, Microsoft Corporation

Chris Gray is a Partner Architect in the Office of the CTO for the Microsoft's Edge and Platform team. He is responsible for designing and implementing key telemetry components in Microsoft's Operating System and Cloud services. He is currently working on the OSS "Dynamic Telemetry... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 2:40pm - 3:05pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Interesting and Unexpected OpenTelemetry Use Cases

Level Intermediate

3:10pm MDT

Let's Generate Art and Traces! - Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana Labs

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:10pm - 3:35pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

The year is 2025, and it's pretty safe to assume that most of us have used "Generative AI" (or GenAI) at least once to produce images from prompts. Rumors say that some of us even used that as an excuse to buy a fancy new GPU and run models like Stable Diffusion locally, "For Science!", of course.

In this talk, we'll set aside the feelings (positive or negative!) that we might harbor for generative AI and use them as an excuse, not to buy shiny new GPUs, but to learn how to build a practical Spring + Java application in a GenAI context, deploy it on Kubernetes, and instead of tracing GPU invoices, we’ll trace our application’s behavior using distributed tracing.

Using Spring, we’ll store prompts in a database and submit them to generative models. Image results will be stored and then displayed. The application will take advantage of Kubernetes batch job processing facilities and implement reasonable security policies by leveraging RBAC. We will also look into distributed tracing, using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Grafana Tempo, to visualize the lifecycle of our requests as they pass through our application.

Speakers

Tiffany Jernigan

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Tiffany is senior developer advocate at Grafana Labs and a CNCF Ambassador. She also formerly worked as a software developer and developer advocate at VMware, Amazon, Docker, and Intel. Prior to that, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering. In her... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:10pm - 3:35pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, CNCF Observability Projects

Level Beginner

3:10pm MDT

Panel: The Spec-tacular Game Show - Liudmila Molkova, Microsoft; Ted Young, ServiceNow; Tyler Helmuth, Jamie Danielson & Alex Boten, Honeycomb

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:10pm - 3:45pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

From OTLP to OTTL, engineers are excited about a lot of things. But there is one thing that excites them above all else and that is correcting people. Welcome to “The Spec-tacular Game Show”.

In this fun game show our panelists will be given incorrect statements about the OpenTelemetry Specification or Semantic Convention. The panelists will buzz in, identify what’s wrong, and state the correction. If none of the panelists know the answer the audience will get a chance to answer to steal the point. The panelist (or audience) with the most points wins!

After each question we’ll spend a time explaining why the Spec and Semconv is the way it is and highlight how it produces the production-quality telemetry you know and love. Join us for a fun, relaxing, (snarky) panel about everyone’s favorite part of Otel!

Speakers

Jamie Danielson

Senior Software Engineer, Honeycomb

Liudmila Molkova

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Ted Young

Director of Developer Education, ServiceNow

OpenTelemetry co-founder

Tyler Helmuth

Staff Software Engineer, Honeycomb

Tyler is a Sr. Software Engineer at Honeycomb with a passion for observability and helping users start their observability journey. He is a maintainer for the OpenTelemetry Collector and OTel Helm Charts, and an active contributor to other OTel repositories. While not its originator... Read More →

Alex Boten

Staff Software Engineer, Honeycomb

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:10pm - 3:45pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, OpenTelemetry In-Depth

Level Any

3:45pm MDT

Coffee and Networking Break

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:45pm - 4:00pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C Foyer (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:45pm - 4:00pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C Foyer (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Breaks

Level Any

4:00pm MDT

How To Think About Instrumentation Overhead - Jason Plumb, Splunk

Thursday June 26, 2025 4:00pm - 4:25pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Novice observability practitioners are often overly obsessed with performance. They might approach instrumentation with skepticism and have concerns about latency degradation or resource consumption. This talk is a primer on the topic of instrumentation overhead, and it will teach you how to think about overhead in an observability context. We will cover the causes of overhead and why overhead is so hard to measure and even harder to predict reliably. Lastly, we will present some practical techniques for understanding overhead in your environment and some strategies for coping with it.

Speakers

Jason Plumb

Engineer, Splunk

Jason Plumb (he/him) is a hacker, artist, experimenter, polyglot programmer, and dad from Portland, OR, USA. He is co-maintainer of OpenTelemetry Android and an approver in various OpenTelemetry java projects. When not at work, Jason volunteers with Futel to install and maintain a... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 4:00pm - 4:25pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, Integrating Observability into DevOps Practices

Level Any

4:00pm MDT

Building Resilient Telemetry Pipelines: Mastering the OpenTelemetry Collector's Persistent Queue - Denton Krietz, Bindplane

Thursday June 26, 2025 4:00pm - 4:25pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

The OpenTelemetry Collector’s persistent queue provides a robust mechanism for handling data bursts, destination outages, and processing delays, ensuring no telemetry data is lost—but from experience, it’s consistently one of the collector's least understood features.

In this talk, we’ll explore the inner workings of the OTel Collector’s persistent queue, including how it buffers data, ensures durability, and enables replay after failures. Attendees will learn how to configure persistent queues for their unique workloads, optimize their telemetry pipeline performance, and troubleshoot common pitfalls.

Whether you’re a site reliability engineer, developer, or observability enthusiast, this talk will equip you with the knowledge to deeply understand persistent queues to optimize your telemetry pipeline in production.

Speakers

Denton Krietz

Sales Engineer, Bindplane

Denton is a pre-sales Sales Engineer at Bindplane where he supports organizations as they evaluate and deploy BindPlane, an OTel-native telemetry pipeline. Denton has worked in both customer-facing and internal engineering roles in a variety of industries such as security and gaming... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 4:00pm - 4:25pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Deploying and Scaling OpenTelemetry

Level Intermediate

4:30pm MDT

Monitoring GenAI Applications - Prasad Mujumdar, Okahu AI

Thursday June 26, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

GenAI Observability is proactive monitoring of your AI apps and cloud infra they run on to understand how to make them work better. The ever evolving landscape of genAI technologies makes it very challenging to manage. Project. Monocle is built for App developers to trace their app code in any environment without lots of custom code decoration. It’s a community driven open source project under Linux Foundation AI&Data, built on top of OpenTelemetry. It provides out of the box support of several genAI tech components. With very little to no code changes, you can generate OpenTelemetry compatible traces and spans of your genAI application. Monocle provides consistent format to describe entities like LLMs and vector stores as well as events like prompts and responses. It can be integrated with apps in personal dev/lab environment as well as cloud deployments.

This session will illustrate challenges of monitoring/tracing genAI applications which is a big problem taking your dev/prototypes to production. It will provide a quick overview of how to use Monocle Python and Typescript libraries in your application with little efforts.

Speakers

Prasad Mujumdar

CTO, Okahu AI

Prasad is founder and CTO of Okahu AI. He's leads the LF's Data&AI project Monocle. Prasad has extensive experience in data management, data governance and AI technology, in past worked in IBM, Microsoft and Cloudera at technical leadership positions.

Thursday June 26, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, Innovations in Open Source Observability

Level Intermediate

4:30pm MDT

Decoding OpenTelemetry(OTel) Collector: A Deep Dive into Architecture - Dinesh Gurumurthy, Datadog

Thursday June 26, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector is a core component of OpenTelemetry. As a vendor-neutral agent, it is the backbone of modern observability pipelines, transforming how you monitor infrastructure and applications. Over the last year, we worked closely with Collector’s internals as we rolled out a build of the Collector. We’ve also contributed to the Collector and we’ve worked extensively with customers to run the Collector at scale.

The Collector has an extremely componentized architecture, however, like with any tools, it’s hard to grasp the internal workings and its hidden capabilities. In this talk, we’ll peel back the layers to reveal the many components and APIs—documented and undocumented—that makes up the OTel Collector. We will introduce with lesser-known extensions, connectors, providers, and converters.

The Collector provides a great out of the box experience - but when things go wrong, you need to understand the fundamentals of how data flows through the Collector. We’ll introduce you to the little-known but essential ‘exporthelper’, which powers the queueing, batching, and persistence of data passing through the collector.

Speakers

Dinesh Gurumurthy

Staff Engineer, Datadog

Dinesh Gurumurthy is a Staff Engineer at Datadog and the founding leader of the company’s OpenTelemetry team. Last year, Dinesh led the initiative to embed the OpenTelemetry collector with the Datadog Agent. He is also highly involved in the OpenTelemetry community, contributing... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, OpenTelemetry In-Depth

Level Intermediate

5:00pm MDT

Innovating on Top of Open Source Observability - Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation - Vijay Samuel & Wei Tang, eBay

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

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.

Speakers

Wei Tang

MTS 2 - Software Engineer, eBay

Joined eBay at 2015. Have been working in observability for 5 years. Worked with teammates to build metrics platform/alerting platform, and machine learning platform. Starting from 2022, focus on building distributed tracing solution.

Vijay Samuel

Principal MTS, Architect, eBay

Vijay Samuel works with eBay's observability platform as its architect. During his time at eBay Vijay has transformed eBay's observability platform into a cloud native offering that is primarily built on top of open source technologies. He loves to code in Go and play video games... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, Innovations in Open Source Observability

Level Intermediate

5:00pm MDT

Introducing a Lightweight Rust OpenTelemetry Collector - Mike Heffner & Ray Jenkins, Streamfold

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

In this talk, we'll introduce Rotel—an open-source OpenTelemetry collector built in Rust. Rotel is lightweight and resource-efficient, integrating seamlessly into your development workflow. Its compact design lets you package it with your Python or NodeJS projects, so telemetry collection runs alongside your code without needing additional sidecars.

We'll explore how rethinking telemetry collection at the edge can empower developers right from the early stages of development, paving the way for broader OpenTelemetry adoption. You’ll learn how Rust’s low-overhead FFI enables native extensions for telemetry filtering, transformation, and enrichment using Python and Typescript.

By leveraging Rust’s performance strengths, Rotel avoids the overhead of garbage collection, resulting in lower memory usage and reduced latency. Its quick cold start times make it a natural fit for modern cloud-native, serverless, and edge computing environments. Join us to discover how moving telemetry collection closer to the source can help you analyze high-volume, high-fidelity signals more effectively.

Speakers

Mike Heffner

Co-founder, Streamfold

Mike Heffner is co-founder of Streamfold, where they are building solutions to improve improve telemetry control and increase OpenTelemetry adoption. Prior to Streamfold, Mike was a backend engineer at Netlify helping scale their delivery network, and at Librato building one of the... Read More →

Ray Jenkins

Founder, Streamfold

Ray Jenkins is co-founder of Streamfold, where they are building open source software to improve adoption and control of OpenTelemetry. Prior to founding Streamfold, he led software engineering efforts at Snowflake, on the observability and performance of FoundationDB and at Segment... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:00pm - 5:25pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Extending and Customizing OpenTelemetry

Level Intermediate

5:30pm MDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: Taming Metric Cardinality: Practical Cost Reduction With the OpenTelemetry Collector - Jon Reeve & Eric Anderson, ControlTheory

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 5:45pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

As OpenTelemetry adoption expands, one common pain point across the community is metric cardinality. High-cardinality metrics—especially those with user- or host-level tags—can overload backends with unique time series, driving up costs and reducing signal quality. Many teams only notice once the vendor bill arrives.

In this talk, we’ll explore how to use the OpenTelemetry Collector and OTTL (OpenTelemetry Transformation Language) to proactively reduce metric cardinality. Learn how to spot costly metrics, reshape or drop them with the filter processor, test changes with the OTTL Playground, and implement a control plane to safely evolve filtering rules.

Whether you’re using Prometheus, a commercial vendor, or OpenTelemetry-native pipelines, this session offers practical, open-source strategies to reduce noise, improve signal, and keep observability costs sustainable.

Speakers

Jon Reeve

CPO, ControlTheory

Jonathan Reeve is a co-founder of ControlTheory, where he helps teams take control of their observability data with smarter, more efficient telemetry pipelines. A passionate advocate for OpenTelemetry and open standards, Jonathan focuses on making observability more scalable, cost-effective... Read More →

Eric Anderson

CTO, ControlTheory

Eric is the Chief Technology Officer at ControlTheory, an observability geek, and serial entrepreneur with a few notches in his belt. When not hacking, solving problems, or fighting some YAML file somewhere, you'll problem find him hovering in a helicopter somewhere.

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 5:45pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Open Observability Summit, Innovations in Open Source Observability

Level Beginner

5:30pm MDT

⚡ Lightning Talk: From GenAI Applications To AI Models: Unraveling End To End AI Observability With OpenTelemetry - Huxing Zhang & Minghui Zhang, Alibaba Cloud

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 5:45pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

As GenAI technologies continue to proliferate across diverse industries, achieving end-to-end observability from GenAI applications to AI models is essential for maintaining operational efficiency and reliability. This session introduces a practical approach to constructing a comprehensive GenAI observability stack, leveraging OpenTelemetry (OTel) as the foundational framework. Attendees will discover:
● The enhancements made to the OTel agent to facilitate zero-code instrumentation for GenAI frameworks such as Dify, LangChain, Spring AI, and etc. This enables seamless tracing and metrics collection for GenAI applications, including support for MCP protocols.
● Improvements to the OTel Python agent facilitating effective observation of large language model (LLM)-serving frameworks, including vLLM and SGlang, ensuring full-spectrum observability of AI model performance and interactions.
● How our AI Studio harnesses OpenTelemetry to efficiently monitor millions of queries per day during model serving.
Attendees will gain actionable insights and strategies to apply OTel-based observability effectively across their entire GenAI stack, enhancing both application and model monitoring.

Speakers

Huxing Zhang

Staff Engineer, Alibaba Cloud

Huxing Zhang is a Staff Engineer of Alibaba Cloud working on observability. He is also member of Apache Software Foundation, PMC member of Apache Tomcat and Apache Dubbo. He speaks at ApacheCon, OTel Community Days, etc.

Minghui Zhang

Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud

Minghui is a software engineer at Alibaba Cloud. He is specializing in APM's auto instrumentation tools for Java LLM applications, utilizing the OpenTelemetry standard to deliver ready-to-use solutions. He is also a PMC member of Spring AI Alibaba, actively contributing to the observability... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 5:45pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2A (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

OTel Community Day, Practical OpenTelemetry

Level Intermediate

5:45pm MDT

Closing Remarks - Austin Parker, Honeycomb

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:45pm - 5:50pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Speakers

Austin Parker

Director of Open Source, honeycomb.io

Austin is Director of Open Source at honeycomb.io, an OpenTelemetry maintainer and governance member, author of several books, and all around great person.

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:45pm - 5:50pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Keynote Sessions

Level Any

5:50pm MDT

Evening Reception

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:50pm - 7:00pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 1C Foyer + Outside Terrace (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:50pm - 7:00pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 1C Foyer + Outside Terrace (Level 1 - Terrace Level)

Breaks

Level Any