Installing OpenTelemetry, Today and Tomorrow
Talkat Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 2025 · 2025-12-08..12-10·
summary
Installing OpenTelemetry is painful today but solvable: the plan maps components to system targets and ships real tools — OpenTelemetry Collector (Alloy distro) for host/Kubernetes data, Oboe/eBPF for network red metrics (works but can lose async context), an LD_PRELOAD injector to auto-install SDKs for most Linux languages, and a fleet-control plane (fleet management → OpAmp) that powers a point‑and‑click Instrumentation Hub in Grafana Cloud that instruments clusters and services in minutes, hits ~80% coverage quickly, and introduces OTel Arrow for high‑volume gateways (beta).
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chapters (6)
- 0:00The challenge of OTel
- 5:57Hierarchy of needs approach
- 19:40Simplifying with Instrumentation Hub
- 23:35Fleet management and future vision
- 26:55AI-driven assistance
- 27:59Q&A and technical discussion
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