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OpenTelemetry (OTel) is now the industry standard for observability — but deploying it successfully at scale is still a major challenge. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we dive into the newly launched OpenTelemetry Blueprints initiative: a set of practical reference architectures designed to help Platform Engineering and SRE teams cut through the complexity.
We explore the first official blueprints for Kubernetes and traditional infrastructure environments, covering:
✅ How to standardize OTel Collector deployments
✅ Best practices for instrumentation at scale
✅ Building self-service observability platforms
✅ What these blueprints mean for Platform Engineering and SRE teams
Whether you're just starting your OpenTelemetry journey or trying to scale it across a large organization, this episode gives you a concrete, actionable framework to move faster and with more confidence.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/67db96d7e512/
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Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
03:05 - end-user pains with OpenTelemetry adoption
07:49 - enterprise org structure dictates OTel adoption patterns
12:56 - what’s the different between blueprints and reference implementations, and what can you expect of an OTel blueprint
19:46 - how blueprints balance OpenTelemetry’s flexibility with opinionation
23:11 - first blueprint: OpenTelemetry for traditional Environments, virtual machines, bare metal and non-Kubernetes
32:42 - second blueprint: OpenTelemetry for Kubernetes Workloads and managed telemetry
49:08 - third blueprint: Kubernetes monitoring with OpenTelemetry.
56:16 - roadmap for the OpenTelemettry blueprints initiative
1:00:01 - outro
Resources:
OTel Blueprints: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/guidance/
Blueprints intro blog: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/blueprints-intro/
OpAMP intro and updates: https://horovits.medium.com/operating-opentelemetry-at-scale-with-opamp-737b6af8222b
Dotan Horovits
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Dan Gomez Blanco
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
OpenTelemetry has officially reached CNCF graduation this month, marking a major milestone for one of the most widely adopted open observability projects. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we unpack what this graduation really means for the project and for users out there.
We also revisit the newest observability signal in OpenTelemetry, Continuous Profiling, which was released in public alpha. We explore where the effort currently stands, the adoption and usage best practices. Finally, we dive into the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiling agent and how it aims to dramatically simplify the adoption of continuous profiling for developers and platform teams.
Our guest for this episode is Israel Ogbole, CEO & Co-founder of Zymtrace and member of the OTel Profiling SIG. Prior to founding zymtrace, he served as Principal Product Manager at Elastic, where he led Universal Profiling. He also led the donation of Elastic’s eBPF CPU profiler to OpenTelemetry. Israel also worked at Cisco AppDynamics and at Microsoft, with rich background in observability.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/c66dc2cd7d3c
Show Notes:
00:00 - episode and guest intro
04:16 - OpenTelemetry reaches CNCF graduation
15:25 - Continuous profiling reaches public Alpha
34:19 - eBPF profiling agent
57:04 - outro
Resources:
OpenTelemetry reaches CNCF Graduation: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-graduates/
OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/profiles-alpha/
OTel adds the eBPF profiling agent donated by Elastic: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2024/elastic-contributes-continuous-profiling-agent/
Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1
Continuous Profiling: a new observability signal: https://medium.com/p/8afd5bafd498
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Dotan Horovits
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Israel Ogbole
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
VictoriaMetrics is a fascinating open source project for metrics monitoring. In the past couple of years the project has expanded its scope from monitoring to observability, with the addition of VictoriaLogs and VictoriaTraces to the stack. In this episode, Horovits sits for a fireside chat with co-founder and Engineering Manager, Roman Khavronenko, to learn more about it. They discuss the transition, the new projects added to the stack, design considerations, and what’s coming next.
Roman is a software engineer with experience in distributed systems, monitoring and high-performance services. Prior to VictoriaMetrics, Roman worked as an engineer at Cloudflare.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/1069cec7892e
Resources:
VictoriaMetrics on GitHub: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaLogs explainer: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/victorialogs-architecture-basics/
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Dotan Horovits
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Roman Khavronenko
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises: how to remotely manage, configure, and update this agent fleet in a consistent and secure way?
This is where Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) comes into the picture: it provides a standardized protocol that lets a central backend automatically configure agents, push updates, monitor their health, and collect status information.
In this episode Horovits hosts Andy Keller, OpAMP Maintainer and Principal Engineer at Bindplane, to discuss how OpAMP makes large-scale observability deployments much easier to operate and control. Andy shares the project status, including hot KubeCon update you don’t want to miss.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/737b6af8222b/
Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
02:01 - why OpAMP mission statement
04:29 - types of OpenTelemetry Collector fleet deployments
06:49 - from configuration management to observability
10:23 - OpAMP for Kubernetes
15:58 - OpAMP protocol and components
26:54 - OpAMP for remote management of OTel Java SDK and other agents
33:38 - server implementations for OpAMP
36:33 - adopter vendors and end-users
39:14 - project maturity
42:59 - protocol vs. product
47:55 - OpAMP Gateway launch
51:10 - Scale of OTel Collector deployments
54:56 - OpAMP roadmap
59:12 - where to follow the project and Andy
1:02:34 - outro
Resources:
OpAMP specification: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/opamp/
OpAMP for OpenTelemetry Collector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/cmd/opampsupervisor/specification/README.md
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Andy Keller
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
February 2026 the OpenTelemetry community gathered at OTel Unplugged event in Brussels. It was the first time this unconference was held in Europe, bringing together maintainers, contributors, governance committee members, and end usersIn this episode our host Dotan Horovits and guest Juraci Paixão Kröhling will discuss their insights from the event about the current state of the project, roadmap, challenges, community and more.
Juraci is a software engineer, a Governance Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and an emeritus maintainer of the Jaeger project, and the co-founder of OllyGarden, an OpenTelemetry-based startup.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/e00f219f7460/
Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
01:39 - OTel Unplugged background
06:60 - stabilization and graduation
21:49 - OTel blueprints
26:24 - OTel collectors tied to vendors
30:14 - bad telemetry
32:40 - OpenTelemetry-Prometheus compatibility
39:49 - OpenTelemetry Injector
43:07 - OpenTelemetry Weaver
45:33 - Instrumentation Score
51:15 - mobile and browser observability
52:23 - YAML configuration for SDK
55:19 - additional events for OTel community
58:00 - Jaeger v2.15.0 release
1:00:18 - outro
Resources:
OTel Unplugged: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-unplugged-fosdem/
OTel OBI for eBPF instrumentation: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1
Mobile observability with OTel: https://medium.com/p/2eb847c41941
OTel Injector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-injector
OTel Weaver and Observability by Design approach: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-weaver/
OTel blueprints proposal: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/3094
Instrumentation Score: https://github.com/instrumentation-score/spec
Jaeger v2.15.0 release: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.15.0
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Dotan Horovits
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Juraci Paixão Kröhling
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpkroehling/
OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
In the opening episode of 2026, we mark a major milestone—a decade to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)—with none other than the CNCF’s CTO and co-founder, Chris Aniszczyk. Chris joins host Dotan Horovits on a fascinating fireside chat, looking back at the CNCF’s journey from a bold experiment into a central pillar of modern infrastructure. They discuss the current state of cloud-native, across Kubernetes and an ecosystem of over 200 projects, and share their grounded predictions for 2026 and into the second decade.
Beyond his role at the CNCF, Chris Aniszczyk serves as Executive Director of the Open Container Initiative (OCI), and CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure, at The Linux Foundation, the parent organization of the CNCF, OCI, OpenInfra and more. At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/479e6bbf793c/
Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
01:51 - 10th anniversary to the CNCF
06:18 - the expanding scope of cloud native and Kubernetes
14:58 - the community expansion around the world
20:49 - KubeCon Europe
29:30 - consolidation of observability and security
34:00 - intersection of CNCF, FinOps and AI
37:35 - AI-generated code contribution for open source
43:46 - announcing the Agentic AI Foundation and MCP donation
53:00 - outro
Resources:
Observability for AI workloads: https://medium.com/p/b8972ba1b6baCNCF Ambassador’s
Reflections on 10 Years of CNCF: https://medium.com/p/a796646db552
Agentic AI Foundation formation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation
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Dotan Horovits
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Chris Aniszczyk
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Twitter: @cra
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caniszczyk/
Mastodon: @[email protected]
OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
Generative AI is everywhere, but how do we monitor and observe it? OpenTelemetry has been a prominent tool and standard for observability, and recently the OTel community has been aiming to expand its scope and cover GenAI workloads with semantic conventions and tools.
In this episode, Horovits is joined by Nir Gazit, creator of the OpenLLMetry project, and member of the OpenTelemetry Generative AI SIG. We discuss new semantic conventions, tracing prompts and model behavior, the OpenLLMetry project’s journey, and what observability even means for modern AI systems.
Nir Gazit is the CEO and co-founder of Traceloop, and brings a wealth of data and AI experience, with previous experience leading AI teams at Google and serving as the Chief Architect at Fiverr.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/81b9cea6a771/
Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
04:09 - what is observability for AI
18:07 - AI observability differences from traditional observability
25:22 - OpenLLMetry intro
41:21 - OpenLLMetry latest updates and roadmap
47:00 - OpenTelemetry GenAI Semantic Conventions SIG
56:03 - KubeCon updates: CrossPlane, Knative, Dragonfly, in-toto reached CNCF graduation
1:00:08 - outro
Resources:
OpenTelemetry Generative AI Observability SIG: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/1c71595874e5d125ca92ec3b0e948c4325161c8a/projects/llm-semconv.md
https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry
https://github.com/traceloop/hub
https://github.com/traceloop/opentelemetry-mcp-server
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Dotan Horovits
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Nir Gazit
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenTelemetry project, which brings the promise of a multi-language, multi-protocol auto-instrumentation, thanks to a code donation by Grafana Labs.
Our guest today is Mario Macías, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry eBFP Instrument maintainer. Macías joins Horovits to share about OBI, its origins, capabilities and how it fits into the broader OpenTelemetry project.
Mario holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture and for the last 8 years he's been working in observability at different companies. He also authored books in Spanish language, such as "Programación en Go" or "Introducción a Apache Spark".
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1
Show Notes:
00:00 - episode intro
02:11 - guest intro
05:15 - Beyla origins
08:45 - OBI for app monitoring
14:46 - no-code multi-language instrumentation
23:12 - OBI trace support
33:58 - OBI components
43:39 - Beyla project new focus
47:21 - OTel instrumentation SIG
51:34 - collaboration with other OTel components and SIGs
54:59 - OBI roadmap
59:26 - outro
Resources:
Dotan Horovits
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Mario Macías
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means for observability. From event-driven architectures to autoscaling and service runtime, we discuss how these building blocks fit into modern systems. We discuss major capabilities around resilience, scalability, observability and even agentic AI support.
Our guest for this episode is Yaron Schneider, co-creator of both Dapr and KEDA projects, and co-founder and CTO of Diagrid. He also brings years of leadership at Microsoft on scalable cloud architecture.
You can read the recap posts:
Show Notes:
00:00 - episode intro
01:19 - guest intro and Dapr & KEDA intro
04.53 - why Microsoft created KEDA
14:43 - why Microsoft decided to open-source KEDA
16:58 - why Microsoft created Dapr
24:52 - observability in Dapr
33:38 - shifting from logs to traces
37:46 - building a startup around foundation-led open source
46:22 - agentic AI support in Dapr
49:11 - Dapr updates and roadmap
52:15 - KEDA updates and roadmap
53:50 - Dapr at KubeCon NA
55:08 - Jaeger celebrates 10th anniversary
56:13 - OpenTelemetry Collector user survey
56:58 - proposal for a new OTel SIG for resource metadata semantic conventions
1:00:00 - outro
Resources:
Dapr: https://dapr.io/
KEDA: https://keda.sh/
Dapr accepted to graduation, Dec 2024, my LI post: https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:7262354292794159105
Announcing Dapr AI Agents: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/12/announcing-dapr-ai-agents/
Jaeger 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-at-10-forged-in-community-reborn-in-opentelemetry-621d4eabdeda
Jaeger v2 and alignment with OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774
Proposal for a new OpenTelemetry SIG: Service and Deployment Semantic Conventions: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2837/
OTel Collector Follow-up Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbpqBcCVfmRj_Rk_Sd6zaBGpfzGSBvSZ6CdVn6PPBbbmPIOw/viewform
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Yaron Schneider
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The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHouse is doubling down on observability with the release of ClickStack, a new open source observability stack that bundles in ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry and HyperDX frontend.
I invited Mike Shi, the co-founder of HyperDX and co-creator of ClickStack, to tell us all about this new project. Mike is Head of Observability at ClickHouse, and brings prior observability experience with Elasticsearch and more.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/73f129a179a3/
Show Notes:
00:00 episode and guest intro
04:38 taking the open source path as an entrepreneur
10:51 the HyperDX observability user experience
16:08 challenges in implementing observability directly on ClickHouse
20:03 intro to ClickStack and incorporating OpenTelemetry
32:35 balancing simplicity and flexibility
36:15 SQL vs. Lucene query languages
39:06 performance, cardinality and the new JSON type
52:14 use cases in production by OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and more
55:38 episode outro
Resources:
HyperDX https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
ClickStack https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clickstack
Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04dd
ClickHouse: Breaking the Speed Limit for Observability and Analytics https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e
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Dotan Horovits
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Mike Shi
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.
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