Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon Europe 2026
The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon EU in Amsterdam from March 23 - 26, 2026. Register today to join us!
Read on to learn about all the events related to OpenTelemetry during KubeCon.
KubeCon Talks and Maintainer Sessions
We Deleted Our Observability Stack and Rebuilt It With OTel: 12 Engineers to 4 at 20K+ Clusters
by Yash Sharma, DigitalOcean; Kunju Perath, DigitalOcean
Tuesday March 24, 2026 11:15 - 11:45CETWhen OTTL Goes Off the Rails: Debugging Transformations with Confidence
by Edmo Vamerlatti Costa, Elastic; Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb
Tuesday March 24, 2026 12:00 - 12:30CETSchema Inference and Automation: A New Era for Telemetry Management
by Arthur Silva Sens, Grafana Labs; Nicolas Takashi, Coralogix
Tuesday March 24, 2026 15:15 - 15:45CETOpenTelemetry Collector SIG: Project Updates
by Dmitrii Anoshin, Cisco; Evan Bradley, Dynatrace LLC; Alex Boten, Honeycomb; Antoine Toulme, Splunk; Jade Guiton, Datadog
Tuesday March 24, 2026 16:15 - 16:45CETOpenTelemetry Logs Driving a Major Shift: Events, Richer Data, and Smarter Semantics
by Robert Pająk, a Cisco company
Tuesday March 24, 2026 16:15 - 16:45CETOpenTelemetry Project Update and AMA
by Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden; Severin Neumann, Causely AI; Pablo Baeyens, Datadog; Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs
Tuesday March 24, 2026 17:00 - 17:30CETOvercoming OpenTelemetry Adoption Challenges
by Chris Weldon, Wolters Kluwer
Tuesday March 24, 2026 17:00 - 17:30CETRetroactive Sampling with OpenTelemetry: Cut 90% Distributed Tracing Bandwidth Usage
by Zhu Jiekun, VictoriaMetrics; Jayice Zhou, Baidu
Tuesday March 24, 2026 17:00 - 17:30CETHello World, Meet the Spanimals: Observability for Beginners
by Matthias Haeussler, CGI; Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana Labs
Wednesday March 25, 2026 14:15 - 14:45CETHow Manual OTel Instrumentation Saves More Than Just Money
by Juliano Costa, Datadog; Yuri Oliveira, OllyGarden
Wednesday March 25, 2026 15:00 - 15:30CETJaeger V2: The Maintainers’ Guide To OpenTelemetry-Native Tracing
by Pavol Loffay, Red Hat
Wednesday March 25, 2026 16:00 - 16:30CET📚 Tutorial: Full-Stack Observability on a Budget: A Guide to Strategic Sampling and Data Optimization
by Pavol Loffay, Red Hat
Wednesday March 25, 2026 16:00 - 17:15CET⚡ Lightning Talk: “Naming Things Is Hard”: A Guide to Naming Using Network Science
by Nick Travaglini, Honeycomb.io
Wednesday March 25, 2026 16:45 - 16:50CETEnriching Telemetry Signals Through Lookups in the OTel Collector
by João Duarte, Elastic
Wednesday March 25, 2026 16:45 - 17:15CET⚡ Lightning Talk: Going Global: Lessons From Internationalizing OpenTelemetry Docs
by Severin Neumann, Causely AI; Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti, Elastic
Wednesday March 25, 2026 17:20 - 17:25CETDNS Tracing & Metrics Via eBPF in OpenTelemetry
by Endre Sara, Causely; Nikola Grcevski, Grafana Labs
Wednesday March 25, 2026 17:30 - 18:00CETObserving Chaos: Real-Time Monitoring of AI-Driven Kubernetes Destruction
by Ricardo Aravena, CNCF; Josh Halley, Cisco
Wednesday March 25, 2026 17:30 - 18:00CETCutting Metrics Traffic, Cutting Costs: The AZ-Aware Observability Blueprint
by Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer, Miro; Iris Dyrmishi, Miro
Thursday March 26, 2026 11:00 - 11:30CETTaming Complexity: Building Observable Workflows With Dapr and OpenTelemetry
by Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0; Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid
Thursday March 26, 2026 11:45 - 12:15CET18 Bluetooth Controllers Walk into a Bar: Observability & Runtime Configuration with CNCF Tools
by Simon Schrottner, Dynatrace; Manuel Timelthaler, Tractive
Thursday March 26, 2026 14:30 - 15:00CETDay-2 Reality Check: Taming Wasteful Telemetry
by Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden; Elena Kovalenko, Delivery Hero
Thursday March 26, 2026 15:15 - 15:45CETThe Fourth Pillar Arrives: OpenTelemetry Profiling Alpha in Action
by Felix Geisendörfer, Datadog; Florian Lehner, Elastic
Thursday March 26, 2026 15:15 - 15:45CET
Observability Day Talks
Observability Day fosters collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing with a focus on cloud native observability projects. This event will be held on November 10, 2025 from 9:00 to 18:00. Look for your favorite talks about Observability and OpenTelemetry in the schedule.
OTel Me About It: Latest Updates in WASI OTel
by Caleb Schoepp, Fermyon; Andrew Steurer, Independent
Monday March 23, 2026 09:10 - 09:35CETSecuring Multi-Tenant SaaS Platforms With Keycloak
by Rishabh Tiwari, SkillBrew.AI; Ritu Soni, SkillBrew.AI
Monday March 23, 2026 09:15 - 09:40CETWho Built This Platform? Alternative Viewpoints on Platform Design
by Elif Samedin, AirDNA; Diana Todea, VictoriaMetrics
Monday March 23, 2026 09:25 - 09:50CET⚡Lightning Talk: The < Meta /> Trick: Connecting Page Load To Backend Traces
by Wolfgang Therrien, Honeycomb
Monday March 23, 2026 09:45 - 09:55CETMaking Observability Work at the Edge
by Julia F Morgado, Dash0; Graziano Casto, Akamas
Monday March 23, 2026 09:45 - 10:10CETA Practical Blueprint for Evolving Observability Schemas
by Sebastian Rabenhorst, Shopify; Benedikt Bongartz, Red Hat
Monday March 23, 2026 10:40 - 11:05CETUnpacking Your OTel Baggage
by Dan Gomez Blanco, New Relic; John Clark, Skyscanner
Monday March 23, 2026 10:40 - 11:05CETScaling on Satisfaction: Automated Rollouts Driven by User Feedback
by Thomas Vitale, Systematic; Whitney Lee, Datadog
Monday March 23, 2026 10:40 - 11:05CETObservability at the Edge: State of OpenTelemetry in Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
by Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0
Monday March 23, 2026 11:15 - 11:40CETHow To Play Support for a Platform Team
by Roberth Strand, Sopra Steria; Awar Abdulkarim, Sopra Steria
Monday March 23, 2026 11:15 - 11:40CETDon’t Do What Donny Don’t Does: The 10 Dos and 500 Don’ts of Workflows Success
by Tim Collins, Pipekit; Becky Pauley, Tailscale
Monday March 23, 2026 11:25 - 11:50CETPanel: The Spec-tacular Game Show V2
by Adriana Villela, Dynatrace; Pablo Baeyens, Datadog; Alex Boten, Honeycomb; Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs; Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb
Monday March 23, 2026 12:45 - 13:20CETPanel: From Signals To Safety Nets: Self-Healing Progressive Delivery With Argo Rollouts
by Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock); Anastasiia Gubska, Chase UK; Phil Henderson, Buoyant
Monday March 23, 2026 12:50 - 13:25CETScaling Telemetry To Terabytes: Applying Google’s Principles To OpenTelemetry With OpAMP
by Raphael Menderico, Google
Monday March 23, 2026 12:55 - 13:20CETObservability for Your Internal Developer Platform: Instrumenting Backstage With OpenTelemetry
by Shivay Lamba, Couchbase; Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz
Monday March 23, 2026 13:30 - 13:55CETTo Make an SLO, First You Must Invent the Universe: OpenTelemetry Collection From Scratch
by Cail Young, Octopus Deploy
Monday March 23, 2026 13:30 - 13:55CETForget Rebuilding, Install Plugins at Runtime
by Tomáš Král, Red Hat; David Festal, Red Hat
Monday March 23, 2026 14:05 - 14:30CETObservability Through Users’ Eyes and How To Fix the Knowledge Disconnect
by Iris Dyrmishi, Miro; Hélia Barroso, Five9
Monday March 23, 2026 14:05 - 14:30CETFrom Pods To PUE: A Digital Twin Approach To Sustainable Kubernetes Infrastructure
by Matteo Bunino, CERN
Monday March 23, 2026 14:40 - 15:05CETFrom Hallucinations To Hardware: Diagnosing LLM Failures
by Ryan Peirce, Chronosphere
Monday March 23, 2026 15:20 - 15:45CETOne YAML To Rule Them All: Declarative Config
by Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb.io
Monday March 23, 2026 15:20 - 15:45CETDebugging Slow Infrastructure Runs With OpenTelemetry in OpenTofu
by James Humphries, Spacelift / OpenTofu
Monday March 23, 2026 15:20 - 15:45CETFull Observability for Kyverno With Observability-as-Code
by Imma Valls, Grafana Labs
Monday March 23, 2026 15:55 - 16:20CETLet Me Be Your OpenTelemetry Champ
by Pavol Loffay, Red Hat
Monday March 23, 2026 15:55 - 16:20CETOpenTelemetry Gateways: Enforce, Transform, Route
by Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden; Natalie Ujuk, IG Group
Monday March 23, 2026 15:55 - 16:20CETObservability Without Borders: The OpenTelemetry Collector in a WebAssembly World
by Evan Bradley, Dynatrace LLC; Pablo Baeyens, Datadog
Monday March 23, 2026 16:30 - 16:55CETWhen the Codebase Starts Instrumenting Itself
by Whitney Lee, Datadog
Monday March 23, 2026 16:30 - 16:55CET⚡Lightning Talk: RepoServer Done Right: Faster Syncs, Lower Cost, Zero Downtime
by Aditya Sharma, Expedia Group
Monday March 23, 2026 17:00 - 17:10CET⚡Lightning Talk: The $10,000 Argo CD Mistake: Eliminating Phantom Syncs and Scaling the repository Server
by Aditya Soni, Sailpoint; Vanshika Jain, Brudite Private Limited
Monday March 23, 2026 17:00 - 17:10CET⚡Lightning Talk: AI Meets Kubernetes: Langflow & GROQ in Automated Incident Management
by Harini Anand, IBM
Monday March 23, 2026 17:00 - 17:10CET⚡Lightning Talk: Roche’s Kubeflow Story: Large Models in Seconds, Costs Cut, Security up With Bottlerocket
by Oswaldo Gomez, Roche
Monday March 23, 2026 17:00 - 17:10CET⚡Lightning Talk: Semantics Matter! Lessons From Stabilizing OpenTelemetry’s System Conventions
by Roger Coll, Elastic
Monday March 23, 2026 17:00 - 17:10CET⚡Lightning Talk: Using Argo Workflows at Petabyte Scale: From CI To Data-Processing Pipelines
by Arya Soni, Exocode Technologies Private Limited
Monday March 23, 2026 17:15 - 17:25CET⚡Lightning Talk: “Metrics That Lie”: Understanding OpenTelemetry’s Cardinality Capping and Its Implications
by Cijo Thomas, Microsoft
Monday March 23, 2026 17:15 - 17:25CET
You need an all-access pass to attend Observability Day. For details, see KubeCon registration.
Maintainer Summit
Held on November 9, one day prior to the co-located events and conference, the Maintainer Summit is an exclusive opportunity for the people behind the project to gather face-to-face. Members of the OpenTelemetry organization will come together to collaborate, learn, share ideas, solve problems, and enrich their projects. Prepared talks, project meetings, and unconference sessions run from 9:00 to 17:00. See the full schedule for all the details. Sign up today!
Building Bridges: How the OTel End User SIG Helps Foster Community
by Adriana Villela, Dynatrace; Josh Lee, Altinity; Reese Lee, New Relic
Sunday March 22, 2026 11:35 - 12:10GMTProject Meeting | Prometheus & OpenTelemetry
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Sunday March 22, 2026 11:35 - 12:10GMT
You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon to access the Maintainer Summit. You also must be a member of a CNCF incubating project, such as OpenTelemetry. For eligibility requirements, see Maintainer Summit.
OpenTelemetry Observatory
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OpenTelemetry Community Awards
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Come join us to listen, learn, and get involved in OpenTelemetry.
See you in Amsterdam!