OpenObservability Talks

As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises:  how to remotely manage, configure, and update this agent fleet in a consistent and secure way?
This is where Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) comes into the picture: it provides a standardized protocol that lets a central backend automatically configure agents, push updates, monitor their health, and collect status information. 
In this episode Horovits hosts Andy Keller, OpAMP Maintainer and Principal Engineer at Bindplane, to discuss how OpAMP makes large-scale observability deployments much easier to operate and control. Andy shares the project status, including hot KubeCon update you don’t want to miss.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/737b6af8222b/

Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
02:01 - why OpAMP mission statement
04:29 - types of OpenTelemetry Collector fleet deployments
06:49 - from configuration management to observability 
10:23 - OpAMP for Kubernetes  
15:58 - OpAMP protocol and components
26:54 - OpAMP for remote management of OTel Java SDK and other agents 
33:38 - server implementations for OpAMP
36:33 - adopter vendors and end-users 
39:14 - project maturity
42:59 - protocol vs. product
47:55 - OpAMP Gateway launch 
51:10 - Scale of OTel Collector deployments
54:56 - OpAMP roadmap
59:12 - where to follow the project and Andy
1:02:34 - outro

Resources:
OpAMP specification: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/opamp/ 

OpAMP for OpenTelemetry Collector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/cmd/opampsupervisor/specification/README.md 

Nike talk at KubeCon on using OpAMP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J68ThM9DqQ0
OpAMP Gateway Extension - launch blog: https://bindplane.com/blog/opamp-for-opentelemetry-managing-collector-fleets-and-introducing-the-new-opamp-gateway-extension

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Dotan Horovits
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Andy Keller
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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

February 2026 the OpenTelemetry community gathered at OTel Unplugged event in Brussels. It was the first time this unconference was held in Europe, bringing together maintainers, contributors, governance committee members, and end usersIn this episode our host Dotan Horovits and guest Juraci Paixão Kröhling will discuss their insights from the event about the current state of the project, roadmap, challenges, community and more.
Juraci is a software engineer, a Governance Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and an emeritus maintainer of the Jaeger project, and the co-founder of OllyGarden, an OpenTelemetry-based startup.

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/e00f219f7460/

Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
01:39 - OTel Unplugged background
06:60 - stabilization and graduation
21:49 - OTel blueprints
26:24 - OTel collectors tied to vendors 
30:14 - bad telemetry
32:40 - OpenTelemetry-Prometheus compatibility
39:49 - OpenTelemetry Injector
43:07 - OpenTelemetry Weaver
45:33 - Instrumentation Score
51:15 - mobile and browser observability
52:23 - YAML configuration for SDK
55:19 - additional events for OTel community
58:00 - Jaeger v2.15.0 release
1:00:18 - outro 

Resources:
OTel Unplugged: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-unplugged-fosdem/ 

OTel OBI for eBPF instrumentation: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1

Mobile observability with OTel: https://medium.com/p/2eb847c41941 

OTel Injector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-injector 

OTel Weaver and Observability by Design approach: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-weaver/ 

OTel blueprints proposal: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/3094 

Instrumentation Score: https://github.com/instrumentation-score/spec 

Jaeger v2.15.0 release: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.15.0 

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Dotan Horovits
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Juraci Paixão Kröhling
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpkroehling/

OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

In the opening episode of 2026, we mark a major milestone—a decade to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)—with none other than the CNCF’s CTO and co-founder, Chris Aniszczyk. Chris joins host Dotan Horovits on a fascinating fireside chat, looking back at the CNCF’s journey from a bold experiment into a central pillar of modern infrastructure. They discuss the current state of cloud-native, across Kubernetes and an ecosystem of over 200 projects, and share their grounded predictions for 2026 and into the second decade.
Beyond his role at the CNCF, Chris Aniszczyk serves as Executive Director of the Open Container Initiative (OCI), and CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure, at The Linux Foundation, the parent organization of the CNCF, OCI, OpenInfra and more. At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. 
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/479e6bbf793c/

Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
01:51 - 10th anniversary to the CNCF
06:18 - the expanding scope of cloud native and Kubernetes
14:58 - the community expansion around the world
20:49 - KubeCon Europe
29:30 - consolidation of observability and security
34:00 - intersection of CNCF, FinOps and AI
37:35 - AI-generated code contribution for open source
43:46 - announcing the Agentic AI Foundation and MCP donation
53:00 - outro

Resources:
Observability for AI workloads: https://medium.com/p/b8972ba1b6baCNCF Ambassador’s
Reflections on 10 Years of CNCF: https://medium.com/p/a796646db552
Agentic AI Foundation formation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation

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Dotan Horovits
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Chris Aniszczyk
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caniszczyk/   
Mastodon: @[email protected]

OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

Generative AI is everywhere, but how do we monitor and observe it? OpenTelemetry has been a prominent tool and standard for observability, and recently the OTel community has been aiming to expand its scope and cover GenAI workloads with semantic conventions and tools.
In this episode, Horovits is joined by Nir Gazit, creator of the OpenLLMetry project, and member of the OpenTelemetry Generative AI SIG. We discuss new semantic conventions, tracing prompts and model behavior, the OpenLLMetry project’s journey, and what observability even means for modern AI systems.
Nir Gazit is the CEO and co-founder of Traceloop, and brings a wealth of data and AI experience, with previous experience leading AI teams at Google and serving as the Chief Architect at Fiverr.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/81b9cea6a771/

Show Notes:
00:00 - intro 
04:09 - what is observability for AI
18:07 - AI observability differences from traditional observability
25:22 - OpenLLMetry intro
41:21 - OpenLLMetry latest updates and roadmap
47:00 - OpenTelemetry GenAI Semantic Conventions SIG
56:03 - KubeCon updates: CrossPlane, Knative, Dragonfly, in-toto reached CNCF graduation 
1:00:08 - outro

Resources:
OpenTelemetry Generative AI Observability SIG: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/1c71595874e5d125ca92ec3b0e948c4325161c8a/projects/llm-semconv.md
https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry
https://github.com/traceloop/hub
https://github.com/traceloop/opentelemetry-mcp-server

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Dotan Horovits
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Nir Gazit
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirga/

OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenTelemetry project, which brings the promise of a multi-language, multi-protocol auto-instrumentation, thanks to a code donation by Grafana Labs. 
Our guest today is Mario Macías, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry eBFP Instrument maintainer. Macías joins Horovits to share about OBI, its origins, capabilities and how it fits into the broader OpenTelemetry project. 
Mario holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture and for the last 8 years he's been working in observability at different companies. He also authored books in Spanish language, such as "Programación en Go" or "Introducción a Apache Spark".
 
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1

Show Notes:
00:00 - episode intro
02:11 - guest intro
05:15 - Beyla origins
08:45 - OBI for app monitoring
14:46 - no-code multi-language instrumentation 
23:12 - OBI trace support
33:58 - OBI components
43:39 - Beyla project new focus
47:21 - OTel instrumentation SIG
51:34 - collaboration with other OTel components and SIGs 
54:59 - OBI roadmap
59:26 - outro 

Resources:
OBI on GitHub: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation/
Grafana Beyla donation: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-beyla-donation/
eBPF for continuous profiling and the Parca project: https://medium.com/p/8afd5bafd498
eBPF for tracing and OTel GoLang Auto-instrumentation SIG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFykWV1mLAI&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D
eBPF for Kubernetes monitoring and the Pixie project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDBj5ctKaw&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D&index=52

Dotan Horovits
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Mario Macías
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Mastodon: https://masto.es/@macias

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OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.