Observability Day Europe 2026
2026-03-23
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[Observability Day Europe 2023, Observability Day Europe 2024, Observability Day Europe 2026]
as the organisers put it
Observability Day is a vendor-neutral gathering of the CNCF observability community. Maintainers, operators, and end users of Prometheus, Fluentd and Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Thanos, Cortex…
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | 08m | |
Conference opens with logistics and sponsor shoutouts including Chronosphere, Dynatrace, ClickHouse, Honeycomb.io, OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics and Grafana… | ||
| Observability Project Updates | Aryana Vaysman | 28m |
Prometheus ships 6‑week minor releases, with native histograms stable (v3.8) and feature flag no‑op (v3.9), PromQL gains like joins, field modifiers, anchored… | ||
| Lightning Talk: The Meta Trick: Connecting Page Load To Backend Traces | Wolfgang Therrien | 09m |
Embedding the W3C traceparent meta tag into server-rendered HTML and reading it with a client-side propagation API builds a single end-to-end OpenTelemetry… | ||
| Keynote: Beyond Observability: Intelligent Progressive... | Sean O'Dell | 06m |
Claims a concrete pattern: combine Dynatrace runtime context, feature flags as runtime entities, and AI-driven guardrails to close the loop from observability… | ||
| Keynote - Before You Let AI Touch Production: Autore... | Colleen White | 05m |
Practical checklist for safe autoremediation: verifies full coverage using OTel at large scale (example: from hundreds of VMs to thousands of short‑lived pods… | ||
| A Practical Blueprint for Evolving Observability Schemas | Benedikt Bongartz, Sebastian Rabenhorst | 29m |
A practical blueprint for evolving telemetry schemas that Shopify runs in production: a ClickHouse schema manager reads versioned YAML specs from GCS… | ||
| Unpacking Your OTel Baggage | Dan Gomez Blanco, John Clark | 25m |
Claims that OpenTelemetry baggage can carry domain keys across services and that Skyscanner uses it to drive per-request QoS decisions via an injected source… | ||
| How to Use the OpenTelemetry Demo and Why It Matters | Juliano Costa | 25m |
Fork of Google’s online boutique becomes a reproducible demo of OpenTelemetry that actually works end to end: 20 microservices instrumented with OpenTelemetry… | ||
| Observability at the Edge: State of OpenTelemetry in Kubernetes Ingress Contro... | Kasper Borg Nissen | 26m |
Evaluation compares KGateway, Contour, Emissary, Istio gateway and Traefik using a seven‑dimension OpenTelemetry maturity model and hands‑on tests with an… | ||
| Panel: The Spec-tacular Game Show V2 | Alex B, Tyler H, Adriana V, Pablo B, Marylia G | 30m |
A fast, correction-driven panel that quizzes on concrete OpenTelemetry rules: API vs SDK roles, instrumentation scope not library, async metric instruments… | ||
| Scaling Telemetry To Terabytes: Applying Google's Principles To OpenTelemetry... | Raphael Menderico | 24m |
Describes running a planet‑scale time‑series DB Monarch that holds ~100 billion series and ~800 TB in memory, and moving from pull to a push client to avoid… | ||
| Accelerating Science, Decelerating Carbon: Sustainable Computing... | Laura Llinares, Amine Lahouel | 26m |
CERN builds a metrics-driven framework that maps per-pod energy and cost to CO2 using OpenCost and Kepler with Prometheus exporters, collecting… | ||
| To Make an SLO, First You Must Invent the Universe: OpenTelemetry Collection From Scra... | Cail Young | 24m |
A multi‑region Kubernetes pipeline is built to do in‑region sampling with an OpenTelemetry Collector front end and a vendor dynamic sampler called Refinery… | ||
| Observability in the Matrix: Choosing the Right AI Agent To Escape the Chaos | Henrik Rexed | 31m |
Benchmarks cover 13 failure scenarios across Kubernetes, Gateway API and app-level faults, testing Kagent, HomeGPT and Symposium with hosted and self‑hosted… | ||
| Observability Through Users' Eyes and How To Fix the Knowledge Disc... | Iris Dyrmishi, Hélia Barroso | 24m |
Systems accumulate telemetry until costs and noise overwhelm operators, not because instrumentation is missing but because ownership and upkeep are. Empirical… | ||
| From Pods To PUE: A Digital Twin Approach To Sustainable Kubernetes Infrastructure | Matteo Bunino | 23m |
Claims a Kubernetes-native digital twin named Julie that uses Prometheus telemetry, Kepler/eBPF and the DRA API to compute per-node power headroom and predict… | ||
| Parity in Observability Across Different Platforms | Kirill Mikhailov, Liam Harrington | 25m |
Riot Games operates 300 Kubernetes clusters with 20,000 deployments and 150,000 pods and builds an automated pipeline that parses observability definitions… | ||
| One YAML To Rule Them All: Declarative Config | Jamie Danielson | 20m |
OpenTelemetry declarative configuration reaches a stable release after five years and lets one YAML file configure tracing and metrics across JavaScript, Java… | ||
| Let Me Be Your OpenTelemetry Champ | Pavol Loffay, Nicolas Wörner | 25m |
A prototype OpenTelemetry MCP Server lets an AI agent inspect live telemetry, propose collector configs and upgrade paths, and automate tasks like automatic… | ||
| OpenTelemetry Gateways: Enforce, Transform, Route | Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Natalie Ujuk | 32m |
Centralized OpenTelemetry collector gateways validate, transform, and route telemetry so enforcement happens once instead of across thousands of agents… | ||
| Observability Without Borders: The OpenTelemetry Collector in a WebA... | Evan Bradley, Pablo Baeyens | 23m |
OpenTelemetry Collector compiles to WebAssembly so it can run in browsers and other Wasm runtimes; about 90% of components compile today and a demo shows a… | ||
| When the Codebase Starts Instrumenting Itself | Whitney Lee | 24m |
Builds an AI agent called Spiny-backed Orb-weaver that reads a Weaver registry, instruments JavaScript code with OpenTelemetry spans, updates the registry and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: A Drop-in System To Accelerate Metrics Observability by 100x Us... | Milind Srivastava | 13m |
Claims a 100x reduction in query cost and latency by computing streaming precomputation and sketch-based approximations as a drop-in accelerator for an… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Semantics Matter! Lessons From Stabilizing OpenTelemetry’s System Conv... | Roger Coll | 10m |
After two years the system semantic conventions reach a process namespace release candidate and the group chooses concrete names and math: CPU time becomes the… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Grasp the Real Worth of Your Microservices by Brewing a Truth Poti... | Yash Bhatnagar | 11m |
Algorithmic recommender evaluates real importance by clustering apps by resource requests and comparing median resource and network usage to produce weighted… | ||
| Lightning Talk: “Metrics That Lie”: Understanding OpenTelemetry’s Cardinality Capping... | Cijo Thomas | 11m |
OpenTelemetry SDKs enforce cardinality capping (defaults ~2,000) by folding unseen attribute combinations into a single overflow attribute, preventing OOMs but… | ||
| Closing Remarks | 02m | |
Conference wrap confirms CFP open for Salt Lake with two tracks, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will be in Mumbai (18–19 June 2026), Yokohama (29–30 July 2026) and… | ||
| Beyond Dashboards: Cultivating the Observability Mindset | O. Hope Amaechi-Okorie | 25m |
Dashboards often show activity but not meaning: visibility without interpretation leaves teams confused. Observability requires targeted metrics driven by… | ||
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