OpenObservability Talks

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

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Dotan Horovits
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Dan Gomez Blanco
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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   

OTel Profiling SIG established: https://medium.com/p/4a9b407e48cc 
eBPF for no-code observability instrumentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDBj5ctKaw&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D

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Dotan Horovits
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Israel Ogbole
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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/ 

OpenObservability Talks episode with VictoriaMetrics co-founder and CTO Aliaksandr Valialkin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-58C8HFGb8&list=PLPFMHjhoDntve1gm-d5yi0YDBH5VEPaHN&index=37

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Dotan Horovits
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Roman Khavronenko
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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 

Nike talk at KubeCon on using OpAMP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J68ThM9DqQ0
OpAMP Gateway Extension - launch blog: https://bindplane.com/blog/opamp-for-opentelemetry-managing-collector-fleets-and-introducing-the-new-opamp-gateway-extension

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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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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.