OpenTelemetry for Platform Engineers: Paving the Road To Self-Service Observability
Talkat Platform Engineering Day North America 2025 · on Monday, 2025-11-10· at 16:30· Building B | Level 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1·
summary
Platform engineers deploy an OpenTelemetry Collector and the operator to offer auto-instrumentation via an operator annotation so new services require no code changes. Demo architecture uses React front end, a Node validation service, MySQL, RabbitMQ and a cluster DaemonSet collector, exporting to Jaeger, Prometheus and OpenSearch; a newly added validator instantly appears in a full distributed trace, dashboards and alerts are applied automatically and the flow works end to end.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00OpenTelemetry intro for platform engineers
- 1:46Fragmented observability tools
- 3:10Platform roles in observability
- 4:34What OpenTelemetry is
- 6:45Beyond three pillars
- 8:52Collector standardizes telemetry
- 9:15Observability as product
- 12:48Auto-instrumentation with operator
- 15:39Demo setup overview
- 17:05Tracing full request flow
- 18:07Developer templates
- 20:17Validating service in trace
- 21:44Default dashboards
- 23:53Multiple backend backends
- 24:35Conclusion resources
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