Cloud Native and Kubernetes Observability Panel: The State of Union
Panelat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 · on Wednesday, 2021-10-13· at 11:00· Room 403 AB + Online·
summary
Panel gives concrete outcomes and tooling: real cases where tracing and metrics reduced 99th percentile latency by half, adoption paths using OpenTelemetry plus Prometheus and service meshes, and hands-on tactics like sampling, dynamic toggles and eBPF agents to avoid paying for everything. Discussion shows where work is needed — developer-facing instrumentation, cost/duplication tradeoffs, edge device telemetry and the risk of “observability washing” — so expect practical tradeoffs and next‑step patterns, not marketing.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:50What is forensics
- 4:35What is Observability
- 5:38Google Assistant example
- 7:02Observability in Prometheus
- 7:55Justin Frederick on Observability
- 8:53Is Kubernetes helping Open Telemetry
- 9:46Is Kubernetes helping Complex Systems
- 11:05Kubernetes Standardization
- 11:50Community Standardization
- 12:25Open Telemetry
- 14:35Supporting developers
- 15:27Observability for applications
- 17:14Shifting effort
- 17:55OpenTelemetry
- 19:50Client Support
- 20:40Too Much Data
- 22:25Tooling
- 23:34Instrumentation
- 25:06Supporting Thoughts
- 26:44Questions
- 27:27Challenges
- 30:03Unsolved Problems
- 31:30Future Challenges
- 32:40Thanks
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