KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

In-person
1-4 April 2025
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11:15 BST

First Day Foresight: Anomaly Detection for Observability - Prashant Gupta & Kruthika Prasanna Simha, Apple

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Picture this! You are deploying an application on a cloud platform, and you want to ensure seamless performance for the application from day one. Early anomaly detection is crucial for identifying issues before they escalate and maintaining system reliability. Ideally, you will leverage historical data to train an ML model for real-time anomaly detection. However, the complexity of training and deploying ML models makes them impractical at launch. What if you could skip training and still spot anomalies in your application health metrics the moment your system is live?

In this session you’ll learn about the benefits of using pre-trained ML models for day one anomaly detection. We’ll discuss how to deploy lightweight, unsupervised pre-trained models using cloud-native tools like Kubeflow for model fine-tuning. Attendees will learn techniques to setup and refine models to detect anomalies and observe application health from the first deployment.

Speakers

Kruthika Prasanna Simha

Machine Learning Engineer, Apple

Kruthika is a software engineer at Apple specializing in building ML enabled observability solutions. She holds a Masters in Computer Engineering and has specialized in ML. Kruthika is on a mission to identify how the ML and cloud-native worlds converge towards bigger and better ML... Read More →

Prashant Gupta

Senior Software Engineer, Apple Inc

Prashant is a software engineer at Apple, specializing in building ML-enabled observability solutions focused on reducing MTTD and MTTR. He holds a master’s degree in Machine Learning and NLP and enjoys exploring how these domains intersect with Observability, Automation, and Root... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Any

12:00 BST

Expanding eBPF’s Reach: From Batteries-Included Auto-Instrumentation To E2E Observability Pipelines - Dom Del Nano, Cosmic

Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Traditional monitoring and o11y were defined by the painstaking process of manual instrumentation—an inconsistent and error-prone effort, especially with the rise of cloud environments. eBPF promised a breakthrough, introducing auto-instrumentation that could eliminate these challenges. When the magic of eBPF works, it’s transformative, but there are times where its auto instrumentation comes up empty. Rigid, black box tooling is frustrating—at its best it’s magical and at its worst it’s distrusted quickly.

What if eBPF provided a “batteries included but removable” experience, enabling engineers to customize o11y to their needs? In this talk, we’ll discuss how CNCF Pixie and Inspektor Gadget provide the right abstraction for unlocking eBPF’s full potential with their powerful post-processing and k8s enrichment capabilities. We’ll also explore how this vision transformed Pixie’s data collector into a universal agent that can power observability pipelines like Fluentbit and Vector.

Speakers

Dom Delnano

Pixie core maintainer, Cosmic

Dom is a core maintainer of the Pixie open source project and founder/CEO at Cosmic. He previously worked at Crowdstrike, focusing on the eBPF Linux sensor, and at New Relic, working on Pixie full-time. Dom first began building observability tooling at Twitter, where he scaled the... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate

14:30 BST

Enhancing Database Observability With OpenTelemetry - Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

With the recent stabilization of the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for databases, it's an excellent time for OSS libraries to provide users with the observability they've been seeking. This talk dives into how you can instrument your application with OpenTelemetry SDKs to improve observability and collect actionable telemetry data from your databases. Learn about the SDK implementations that are currently available by language and database, their current gaps and how you can contribute and develop missing instrumentation.
Whether you're an SRE, developer, or database administrator, this talk will equip you with the tools and knowledge to bring clarity and efficiency to your database systems.

Speakers

Marylia Gutierrez

Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

Marylia is a Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, focusing on Observability with OpenTelemetry. In the OpenTelemetry project, she is an approver for Database Semantic Conventions, JS SDK and Portuguese localization and also a maintainer for Contributor Experience. Before that... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate

15:15 BST

Deep Dive To AI Agent Observability - Guangya Liu, IBM & Karthik Kalyanaraman, Langtrace AI

Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful framework for observability in cloud-native applications, but how does it apply to the intricate needs of AI Agent observability? This session explores the journey of leveraging OpenTelemetry to monitor, trace, and analyze AI Agents. We’ll cover key challenges such as capturing metrics for multi-agent systems, tracing inference workflows, and correlating AI-specific data like model performance and decision latency.

Attendees will gain insights into extending OpenTelemetry to address AI-specific requirements, integrating with popular observability tools, and building actionable insights for production-grade AI systems. Through practical demonstrations and real-world use cases, this talk will showcase how OpenTelemetry provides transparency, reliability, and optimization for AI-driven architectures running on Kubernetes. Join us to unlock the potential of OpenTelemetry for AI Agent observability.

Speakers

Guangya Liu

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

Guangya Liu is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) for IBM Instana. He is the technical leader driving the IBM Instana development and customer support. He is also the open source leader for IBM Instana team, driving the cloud-native open source contribution to integrate with... Read More →

Karthik Kalyanaraman

Co-Founder & CTO, Langtrace AI

Karthik Kalyanaraman is the co-founder and CTO of Langtrace AI. Prior to Langtrace, Karthik built and scaled products at Coinbase, HP and VMware. Karthik is a thought leader and has deep experience in infrastructure and observability.

Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Any

16:15 BST

Asimov's Zeroth Law of Robotics: Observability for AI - Nicole van der Hoeven, Grafana Labs

Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

A robot may not harm humans. A robot must obey humans. A robot must protect its own existence. These are Isaac Asimov's three Laws of Robotics, created to govern the ethical programming of artificial intelligences. From the Butlerian Jihad to Skynet to cylons, we've been immortalizing our collective nightmares about artificial intelligence for years. But there's an unmentioned law that comes as a prerequisite to all of that: a robot must be observable.

In this talk, I discuss the different types of AI, the factors that make observing AI different from observing applications, and the telemetry signals specific to AI that we might want to listen to. How do we deal with large data sets? How do we observe for model drift? How do we take into account the costs of LLMs? How can we use distributed tracing to follow event sequences? Part cautionary tale and part technical demo, this talk shows how to instrument and monitor AI apps using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, OpenLit, and more.

Speakers

Nicole van der Hoeven

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Nicole is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs and a performance engineer with over a decade of experience in breaking software and learning to build it back up again. She has lived in the Philippines, the US, Australia, the Netherlands, and Portugal, helping teams all over... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Any

17:00 BST

An Exemplary Path: Leveraging EBPFs and OpenTelemetry To Auto-instrument for Exemplars - Charlie Le & Kruthika Prasanna Simha, Apple

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Have you already adopted eBPF to unlock powerful, dynamic observability at the kernel level? Are you looking to take the next step by integrating exemplars seamlessly into your observability workflows? If so, you’ve likely encountered the challenge of manually instrumenting applications for exemplar support—an approach that’s often tedious, error-prone, and difficult to maintain. But what if you could leverage your existing eBPF setup to automate exemplar creation for your applications without touching your application code?

eBPF's in-kernel aggregation capabilities, paired with OpenTelemetry's flexible observability framework, enable automatic generation of exemplars. We’ll dive into how eBPF dynamically collects metrics and traces, processes them at the source, and works with OpenTelemetry to correlate kernel-level and application-level observability—all with minimal overhead and maximum convenience.

Speakers

Charlie Le

Software Engineer, Apple

Charlie is a software engineer at Apple, specializing in building and scaling cloud native observability solutions and infrastructure. Deeply inspired by the collaborative spirit of open source, he actively contributes to projects like Cortex and OpenTelemetry, shaping the future... Read More →

Kruthika Prasanna Simha

Machine Learning Engineer, Apple

Kruthika is a software engineer at Apple specializing in building ML enabled observability solutions. She holds a Masters in Computer Engineering and has specialized in ML. Kruthika is on a mission to identify how the ML and cloud-native worlds converge towards bigger and better ML... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate

17:45 BST

How Green Is My OpenTelemetry Collector? - Nancy Chauhan, Student & Adriana Villela, Dynatrace

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

We live in a world heavily dependent on technology, and this comes at an environmental cost. For example, data centres consume 2% of global power. As our systems become more complex, that power consumption will only increase. We strive to understand our systems through Observability, and yet the very telemetry that our systems emit and is ingested by our favorite Observability backends contributes to an increasing global tech carbon footprint.

How can we mitigate this? One way is via the Kepler project. The Kepler Exporter exposes statistics, including power consumption metrics, from an application running in a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster.

In this talk, attendees will learn about:
- Kepler - what is is and what it does
- How to deploy Kepler
- Demo showing Kepler tweaking the power consumption of OTel Collectors in k8s

Attendees will walk away with an understanding of how to deploy greener Collectors, thereby reducing power consumption and costs.

Speakers

Adriana Villela

Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace

Adriana Villela is a Principal Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Previously, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale... Read More →

Nancy Chauhan

Student, Cornell University

I like hacking through software engineering problems. I have been developing solutions for software reliability and also like to break complicated concepts into easier tech content (blogs and videos).I have also worked in Dev Advocacy, amid the crossover of two things I like the most... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:00 BST

OTel Sucks (But Also Rocks!) - Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden & Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

OpenTelemetry (OTel) has become a cornerstone of observability, but the journey hasn’t been without challenges. Inspired by the famous "Linux Sucks" format, this talk explores OTel’s pain points and highlights its successes.

We’ll cover:
* SDK Configuration: Once complex for simple scenarios, now simplified by the Config SIG.
* Collector Challenges: Tail-sampling woes and Prometheus performance issues, balanced by OTel’s ability to handle multiple signals in one binary with great performance using OTLP.
* Semantic Conventions: Painful changes, like in HTTP conventions, but with long-term benefits through unified standards.

Featuring real-world user insights, this session delivers a brutally honest yet optimistic take on OTel’s evolution. Perfect for anyone navigating OpenTelemetry’s complexities or celebrating its strengths.

Speakers

Daniel Dyla

Senior Open Source Architect / OpenTelemetry Maintainer, Dynatrace

Daniel is a Senior Architect with 9 years of experience in observability. Daniel is a member of the W3C Distributed Tracing WG, maintainer of OpenTelemetry JS, former OTel Governance Committee member, and OTel specification sponsor, in addition to working on many other areas of the... Read More →

Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Software Engineer, OllyGarden

Juraci Paixão Kröhling is a software engineer, a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry project, a member of the project's governing board and CNCF Ambassador. He has presented about distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, and other related topics at conferences like KubeCon, OpenSource Summit... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:45 BST

Pushing the Limits of Prometheus at Etsy - Chris Leavoy, Etsy & Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

A deep dive into the journey of pushing Prometheus beyond its performance limits. This talk offers an insider's perspective on scaling a single Prometheus instance using a powerhouse 128-core machine with 4TB of RAM, and processing a staggering 500 million metrics at its peak. It’s a story packed with lessons, insights, and actionable takeaways from operating one of the industry's largest Prometheus servers.

The talk will go through:
- Breaking Boundaries: Explore the challenges encountered in Prometheus' design and how they navigated them.
- Diagnosing Bottlenecks: Discover how to combine observability signals—metrics, profiles, and traces—to pinpoint and overcome performance roadblocks.
- Building Resilience: Uncover strategies to optimize metrics volume and enhance Prometheus' reliability under load.

This session isn’t just about pushing technology to the edge—it’s about learning to work smarter, build better systems, and create a more resilient observability stack.

Speakers

Bryan Boreham

Distinguished Engineer, Grafana Labs

Bryan Boreham is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on highly scalable storage for metrics, logs and traces. Bryan's career has ranged from charting pie sales at a bakery to real-time pricing of billion-dollar bond trades. A contributor to many Open Source projects... Read More →

Chris Leavoy

Staff Observability Engineer, Etsy

Chris Leavoy is a Staff Engineer who leads Etsy's Observability practice. From the good old days of MRTG to modern-day Cloud Native, Chris has a long track record of helping large enterprises wrangle their distributed systems. Bryan Boreham is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Any

14:15 BST

How To Adopt OpenTelemetry in an Enterprise Where Incumbent Vendor Tools Reign Supreme - Chris Weldon, Wolters Kluwer

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

OpenTelemetry isn't just an amazing set of tools and standards for observability - it's a useful ecosystem that's helped Wolters Kluwer to evolve our company from a monitoring strategy based on tool proliferation to an observability strategy with fewer, more purpose-specific tools.

In this session, you'll learn about Wolters Kluwer's 3-year journey to address high mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) by adopting an observability strategy based on OpenTelemetry. We'll cover the technical tradeoffs for how we transitioned our portfolio of monolith and microservice applications from vendor-locked tools to open standards and a narrowed tool selection. We'll review challenges we encountered along the way, and how our platform-as-a-product mindset is helping to drive adoption of these open standards across the organization and improving our MTTR.

Speakers

Chris Weldon

Director of Platform Engineering, Wolters Kluwer

As the Director of Platform Engineering at Wolters Kluwer, Chris cares about having positive impact on the developer, operations, and SRE communities. By combining his prior experience as a systems administrator and as a software engineer, he helps craft easy-to-use solutions that... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Any

15:00 BST

How To Rename Metrics Without Impacting Somebody’s Observability - Bartłomiej Płotka, Google & Arianna Vespri, Independent

Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Metrics are a core aspect of modern cloud-native observability and monitoring. With the Prometheus project, it’s easy to create metrics and adopt existing ones from applications or exporters. It's easy to build layers of tools, alerts, dashboards and integrations that depend on specific metrics. Unnoticed, metric names and labels became an API contract between instrumentation and consumers.

However, second-day operations kick in! New standards, naming opinions and software versions force metrics to be changed, causing major downstream breakages. Projects like Kubernetes or OpenTelemetry started frameworks to raise awareness about this problem. Can we do more?

In this talk, Bartek (Prometheus maintainer) and Arianna (Prometheus client_golang maintainer) will explore renaming strategies for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry end users. Finally, they will discuss existing conventions and frameworks for stable metric versioning that could be adopted by the next generation of instrumentation.

Speakers

Bartłomiej Płotka

Sr Software Engineer, Google

Bartek Płotka is a Senior Software Engineer at Google. SWE by heart, with an SRE background, currently working on Cloud Observability. Previously Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. Author of "Efficient Go" book with O'Reilly. As the co-founder of the CNCF Thanos project and... Read More →

Arianna Vespri

Software Engineer, Self-employed

Arianna Vespri is a Go developer with a background in the music industry. Passionate about monitoring and observability, is a Prometheus contributor and a maintainer of Prometheus client_golang. Active as an electronic musician for decades under a pseudonym, is very familiar with... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate

16:00 BST

Limitless Possibilities, Consistent Design: Crafting Dashboards With Perses DAC - Nicolas Takashi, Coralogix & Antoine Thébaud, Amadeus

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Managing dashboards can be overwhelming, especially for diverse teams with specific goals. This talk explores how Perses and Dashboard-as-Code (DAC) streamline large-scale dashboard management. DAC boosts efficiency, reduces costs, and enables consistent, customizable dashboards—even in complex setups.

We’ll dive into DAC fundamentals and the Go and Cue SDKs that power it. Discover percli, a new CLI tool for seamless Perses interactions. Learn how community-driven mixins, shared dashboards, panels, and PromQL integration make Perses adaptable to any observability stack.

A live demo will showcase how Perses DAC fosters collaboration and simplifies dashboard management at any scale. Whether you oversee dozens or thousands, this session offers tools and insights to transform your approach. Join us to see Perses DAC in action!

Speakers

Nicolas Takashi

Observability Tech Lead, Coralogix

Nicolas is a Software Engineer with a Platform Engineer role at Coralogix. He's mostly interested in topics related to the observability ecosystem, as well as Kubernetes and distributed systems. He is also an open-source contributor to projects such as Prometheus Operator, Perses... Read More →

Antoine Thébaud

Senior Software Engineer, Amadeus

Antoine Thébaud is an experienced developer specializing in observability, with a strong focus on monitoring. At Amadeus, he contributes significantly to the development and optimization of a cloud-ready monitoring platform relying on Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos. Antoine is... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Any

16:45 BST

Observability Pipeline Query Languages: Present and the Future - Jacek Migdal, Quesma

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Many observability products have created their query languages, starting with Splunk and followed by a parade of incompatible options (Sumo Logic, Coralogix Dataprime, Grafana LogQL, Elastic ES/QL, OpenSearch PPL, to name a few). I’ll admit I’m one of the culprits who contributed to this fragmented landscape. Even PromQL, a well-known open-source option for time-series data, hasn’t reached the universal adoption levels of good old SQL.

Is there a way to untangle this mess and march toward some standardization? In this piece, I’ll dive into a few proposals, including concepts like “pipe SQL” and ideas floating around in CNCF forums, to see if there’s a glimmer of hope for alignment.

Speakers

Jacek Migdal

CEO & Co-founder, Quesma

Jacek started a career as an engineering intern at NVIDIA CUDA and Facebook. He joined pre-revenue startup Sumo Logic as ~20 Sumo Logic in the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved back to Poland and opened an office with 80+ full-time engineers. We optimized gross margins on AWS and... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate

17:30 BST

Optimizing Metrics Collection & Serving When Autoscaling LLM Workloads - Vincent Hou, Bloomberg & Jiří Kremser, kedify.io

Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Balancing resource provision for LLM workloads is critical for maintaining both cost efficiency and service quality. Kubernetes’s Horizontal Autoscaling offers a cloud-native capability to address these challenges, relying on the metrics to make the autoscaling decisions. However, the efficiency of metrics collection impacts how quickly and accurately Autoscaler responds to the LLM workload demands. This session explores strategies to enhance metrics collection for autoscaling LLM workloads with:
1. The fundamentals of how horizontal autoscaling works in Kubernetes
2. The unique challenges of autoscaling LLM workloads
3. A comparison of existing Kubernetes autoscaling solution for custom metrics with their pros and cons
4. How optimizing metrics collection through push-based approaches can improve scaling responsiveness.
It will demonstrate an integrated solution using KServe, OpenTelemetry collector and KEDA to showcase how they can be leveraged to optimize LLM workload autoscaling.

Speakers

Vincent Hou

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Vincent Hou is a senior software engineer on Bloomberg’s Cloud Native Compute Services AI Inference engineering team, which he joined in 2023 after working for IBM for 13-years. He has been an active open source contributor since 2010. He previously was an active contributor to... Read More →

Jiří Kremser

YAML Engineer, kedify.io

whois jkremser? Software engineer and open-source enthusiast currently working on kedify.io. Previously GiantSwarm.io, ABSA, Red Hat, etc. He likes road trips, 3d print and he is also a proud contributor to CNCF sandbox project called k8gb.io

Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:00 BST

The Missing Metrics: Measuring Memory Interference in Cloud Native Systems - Jonathan Perry, PerfPod

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Your applications may be suffering from severe performance degradation without you knowing it. Memory bandwidth contention and cache interference between containers can increase tail latency by 4-13x and reduce compute efficiency by 25%, even with CPU and memory limits in place. This effect is particularly insidious as it manifests as high CPU utilization, leading operators to misdiagnose the root cause.

This session presents the latest research on detecting memory interference, including findings from Google, Alibaba, and Meta's production environments. We'll explore how modern CPU performance counters can identify noisy neighbors, examine real-world patterns that trigger interference (like garbage collection and container image decompression), and demonstrate practical approaches to measure these effects in Kubernetes environments.

Speakers

Jonathan Perry

Founder & CEO, PerfPod

Jonathan Perry is a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry eBPF network collector. His PhD research at MIT CSAIL focused on performance isolation in datacenter and cloud networks, aiming to enhance network efficiency and reduce latency. Jonathan founded Flowmill, where he developed eBPF-based... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:45 BST

The State of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Interoperability - Arthur Sens, Grafana & Juraj Michálek, Swiss RE

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Prometheus and OpenTelemetry are two CNCF projects focusing on observability and truly excelling at their main purposes. However, they take slightly different approaches, and making both projects work well together has been challenging.

In this talk, Arthur and Juraj, both active contributors to Prometheus and OpenTelemetry communities, will present all the usual frustrations that a user would face when integrating Prometheus and OTel, and all the work done by the OpenTelemetry-Prometheus SIG (Special Interest Group) in the past year to transform Prometheus+OTel into a love story.

You'll leave this session understanding the core philosophical differences between the two projects that make interoperability so difficult, the progress made to improve the situation, and what to expect in the near future.

Speakers

Arthur Silva Sens

Software engineer, Grafana

Arthur Sens is a Software Engineer at Grafana, focusing on Prometheus and OpenTelemetry interoperability. He is also an active member and maintainer for both communities. The only things that can take Arthur away from the computer are his passion for lifting unnecessarily heavy weights... Read More →

Juraj Michálek

Senior Logging & Monitoring engineer, Swiss RE

I’ve been working as an SRE for the past few years. Currently I am a member of Logging & Monitoring team at Swiss RE where I focus on our Observability stack.

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Beginner

13:45 BST

Smooth Scaling With the OpAMP Supervisor: Managing Thousands of OpenTelemetry Collectors - Evan Bradley, Dynatrace & Andy Keller, observIQ

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

The OpAMP protocol has become a powerful solution for managing OpenTelemetry Collectors, offering seamless remote configuration and control. Until recently, only a limited number of Collector distributions supported OpAMP. However, with the introduction of the OpAMP Extension and Supervisor, it is now easy to include OpAMP support in any Collector distribution.

This session will explore how to utilize OpAMP in upstream Collector distributions and outline the simple steps to make your own distribution OpAMP-compatible. Attendees will gain insights into the architecture and features of the OpAMP Supervisor and its role in enhancing Collector management. The talk will also include a demonstration of how the OpAMP Supervisor enables centralized remote configuration, monitoring, and updates for your Collectors.

Speakers

Andy Keller

Principal Engineer, observIQ

Andy is a Principal Engineer at observIQ where he is responsible for the architecture and implementation of the BindPlane OP, an observability agent management and configuration platform. Andy has worked in the observability space for over 8 years and is a maintainer of the OpAMP... Read More →

Evan Bradley

Senior Software Engineer, Dynatrace

Evan helps maintain the OpenTelemetry Collector, where he is a primary contributor to the OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL), and helps drive adoption of the OpenTelemetry Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) to enable users to manage fleets of Collectors. Evan has a background... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate