OpenTelemetry’s mission is to enable effective observability with high-quality, portable, and ubiquitous telemetry. The Elastic Stack's native OTEL support now aligns directly with that goal, making it easier and more economical to adopt OTel without vendor-specific agents or SDKs.

This talk reviews how Observability data signals are generated in software systems, the benefits and shortcomings of OpenTelemetry 3rd party integrations, and advancements in grassroots first-party OpenTelemetry instrumentation. We’ll end with a short demo showing how to enable effective observability with OpenTelemetry and the ElasticStack.

By leveraging tools like Jaeger and New Relic, we’ll uncover how to gain a full view of your microservices, even in the face of Apache Kafka’s asynchronous nature. Join us for a live demo with a simple Java Spring-Boot app, where we’ll walk through both automatic and manual instrumentation to capture rich telemetry. We’ll also touch on infrastructure-level observability, pulling metrics and traces from Apache Kafka brokers and Apache Flink.

By leveraging tools like Jaeger and New Relic, we will uncover how to gain a full view of your microservices, even in the face of Apache Kafka's asynchronous nature. Join us for a live demo with a simple Java Spring-Boot app, where we will walk through both automatic and manual instrumentation to capture rich telemetry. We will also touch on infrastructure-level observability, pulling metrics and traces from Apache Kafka brokers and Apache Flink.

Sifting through the deluge of data from your distributed systems can be overwhelming – but it doesn’t have to be. Join us to see how Traces Drilldown in Grafana, powered by Tempo, can simplify complex troubleshooting, helping you quickly detect latency issues, identify error trends, and spot anomalies – all without having to learn yet another query language.

This talk will cover the core concepts of OpenTelemetry and observability. It will introduce Logfire and then demonstrate how it can make understanding and fixing applications faster and more enjoyable with a live demo.

Discover how Grafana Beyla, powered by eBPF and OpenTelemetry, can generate consistent observability signals for services across different languages and frameworks. Goutham will guide you through deploying Beyla, setting up dashboards, and improving monitoring even in low-traffic environments.

Datadog recently announced the embedded OpenTelemetry Collector at their annual conference DASH24. OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source, vendor-neutral observability solution that consists of a suite of components—including APIs, SDKs, and the OTel Collector. It allows teams to monitor their applications and services in a standardized format. In this talk we will give you a introduction to OTel, let you know the status quo about the project and tell you why using it could be a game-changer for your observability strategy.

The Kubernetes observability talk will cover how to monitor, trace, and troubleshoot applications in a Kubernetes environment. It will highlight key tools like Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for tracking metrics, logs, and distributed traces. Topics include improving visibility into clusters and microservices, detecting anomalies, and ensuring reliability. The session will focus on best practices for proactive observability and efficient debugging to maintain the health of cloud-native applications.

Recognized by Gartner as a leading observability tool, Elasticsearch is not just log analytics. It has infrastructure monitoring, alerts, APM capabilities—and it's all open-source! Now with the addition of OpenTelemetry, it's even easier to onboard your telemetry data in a standard and vendor-neutral way. Join Andrzej in a technical session to discover the shortest path from zero to a fully functional open-source observability solution with the OTEK stack - OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Half a year ago, my team at Trade Republic fully migrated our observability stack from Datadog to LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir). Operations after migration are as important as the migration itself, involving ongoing challenges such as performance and scalability issues, bugs, and incidents. In this talk, I’ll share our experiences from the past six months, detailing the challenges we faced and the valuable lessons we learned while using Grafana tools. Join us to gain insights into the practical aspects of managing and optimising an observability stack in a dynamic environment.

When deciding for a metrics tooling, one of the implicit decisions we take is about the temporality: are we capturing, exporting, and storing metrics that send only the difference between states (deltas), or are we picking a solution that works by accumulating data instead? In this talk, Tom Braack will show how to migrate from delta-style backends to cumulative ones, with a special focus on doing translations at the Collector side. Join us on this session and be equipped with knowledge about how to move from delta backends to cumulative ones, knowing what are the tradeoffs and gotchas.

What is happening with my microservices?: In the era of microservices, cloud-native applications, and complex infrastructure, understanding the health and performance of our systems is both more challenging and crucial than ever. Observability, distinct from mere monitoring, provides insights into the internal states of systems based on their external outputs. This talk will introduce the core principles of observability, delineate its significance in modern software engineering, and offer a primer on key tools and practices. By harnessing the power of observability, engineers can proactively identify issues, optimize performance, and ensure that their systems are resilient and user-centric.

Advanced Observability in Azure: Leveraging Elastic and OpenTelemetry for AI Application Monitoring

Is you thought OTel was just for backend services and Kubernetes pods, think again. Join Carly as she walks through the state of Client Instrumentation for OpenTelemetry, how to propagate UI and backend signals, and how to find bottlenecks using Elastic.

Zero-code auto instrumention with K8 and OTel extensions: Zero Code, Increased Observability