Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2024
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City from November 12 - 15, 2024.
Read on to learn about all the things related OpenTelemetry during KubeCon.
OpenTelemetry Contribfest
Join the OpenTelemetry maintainers for the OpenTelemetry Contribfest to make the project better for everyone. You can choose between several opportunities to contribute, and you can count on maintainers from different project areas to help you on your first steps: documentation, Collector, Java, JS, Ruby, Python, .NET, and more.
KubeCon Talks and Maintainer Sessions
- Jaeger: Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry | Project Lightning Talk
by Jaeger Maintainers
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:59am - 10:04am MST - OpenTelemetry: OpenTelemetry in Five Minutes | Project Lightning Talk
by OpenTelemetry Maintainers
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:13am - 10:18am MST - OpenTelemetry: The OpenTelemetry Hero’s Journey: Working with Open Source Observability | Project Lightning Talk
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:27am - 10:32am MST - OpenTelemetry: The Future of Network Monitoring, eBPF for Low-Level Insights | Project Lightning Talk
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:41am - 10:46am MST - Lightning Talk: Minimizing Data Loss Within the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector
by Alex Kats, Capital One
Tuesday November 12, 2024 6:05pm - 6:10pm MST - Optimizing LLM Performance in Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry
by Ashok Chandrasekar, Google & Liudmila Molkova, Microsoft
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST - Unifying Observability: Correlating Metrics, Traces, and Logs with Exemplars and OpenTelemetry
by Kruthika Prasanna Simha & Charlie Le, Apple
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST - OpenTelemetry Project Update
by Alolita Sharma, Apple; Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Grafana Labs; Ted Young, ServiceNow; Morgan Mclean, Splunk; Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace
Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST - Using OpenTelemetry for Deep Observability Within Messaging Queues
by Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava & Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz
Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST - Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry
by Jonah Kowall, Independent & Pavol Loffay, Red Hat
Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST - Understanding How OpenTelemetry Network Uses eBPF for Network Observability
by Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz & Jonathan Perry, PerfPod
Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST - The OTTL Cookbook: A Collection of Solutions to Common Problems
by Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb & Evan Bradley, Dynatrace
Wednesday November 13, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST - Lesson’s Learned Adopting OpenTelemetry at Scale
by Alex Arnell, Heroku / Salesforce
Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST - How We Made OpenTelemetry Be Our Fitness Tracker for Your CI/CD Pipelines!
by Nicolas Woerner, Clario & Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace
Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST - Low-Overhead, Zero-Instrumentation, Continuous Profiling for OpenTelemetry
by Christos Kalkanis, Elastic
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST - Fluent Bit: Better Pipelines for Observability
by Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere
Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST - Mastering OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration
by Steve Flanders, Cisco
Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST - Tutorial: OpenTelemetry Hands-on - Automatic and Manual Instrumentation for Java and Python Apps
by Matthias Haeussler, Novatec Consulting GmbH & Tiffany Jernigan, Independent
Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm MST - Contribfest: OpenTelemetry Contribfest
by OpenTelemetry Maintainers
Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Observability Day
Observability Day fosters collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing of cloud-native observability projects. This event will be held on November 12, 2024 from 9am to 6pm. Check the full schedule to find your favorite talks about Observability and OpenTelemetry.
IMPORTANT access note: You need an in-person all-access pass for on-site access to Observability Day. For details, see KubeCon registration. If you have a virtual ticket, you will be able to follow Observability Day through a live stream.
OpenTelemetry Observatory
Drop by and say “Hi!” at OpenTelemetry Observatory presented by Splunk in the Expo Hall. This will be a place for informal chats, meetups, and other discussions led by OpenTelemetry community members and maintainers.
Note, that the Observatory may show up as “Splunk Activation Booth” on the event map.
For the activity schedule, see the OTel Observatory Schedule. Note that this schedule may be updated up until the day of the event, so check back for the latest!
New for this year!
- SIG Office Hours: Come meet the people behind the project, learn about their work, ask questions, share feedback, or find out how to contribute.
- Special Topic Discussions: Come learn about two of the hottest OTEPs right now, Events and Entities!
If you’d like to participate by leading a discussion, or if there is a discussion topic you’re interested in, please reach out to the OpenTelemetry End User SIG to let us know, and we will see what we can do.
You can help us improve the project by sharing your thoughts and feedback about your OpenTelemetry adoption, implementation, and usage.
We will create action items from your comments as appropriate. Check #otel-sig-end-user in CNCF’s Slack instance for results and action item updates to come after KubeCon EU.
Come join us to listen, learn, and get involved in OpenTelemetry.
See you in Salt Lake City!