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• Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation - OpenObservability Talks S6E05

  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/377cb0432bf1Show Notes:00:00 - episode intro02:11 - guest intro05:15 - Beyla origins08:45 - OBI for app monitoring14:46 - no-code multi-language instrumentation 23:12 - OBI trace support33:58 - OBI components43:39 - Beyla project new focus47:21 - OTel instrumentation SIG51:34 - collaboration with other OTel components and SIGs 54:59 - OBI roadmap59:26 - 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/8afd5bafd498eBPF for tracing and OTel GoLang Auto-instrumentation SIG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFykWV1mLAI&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3DeBPF for Kubernetes monitoring and the Pixie project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDBj5ctKaw&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D&index=52Dotan Horovits============Twitter: @horovitsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovitsMastodon: @horovits@fosstodonBlueSky: @horovits.bsky.socialMario Macías===========LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariomac/Mastodon: https://masto.es/@maciasSocials:BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social⁠Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠⁠LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/⁠YouTube:⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠⁠OpenObservability 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.

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• Cloud Native Spotlight: KEDA & Dapr Projects - OpenObservability Talks S6E04

  In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means for observability. From event-driven architectures to autoscaling and service runtime, we discuss how these building blocks fit into modern systems. We discuss major capabilities around resilience, scalability, observability and even agentic AI support.Our guest for this episode is Yaron Schneider, co-creator of both Dapr and KEDA projects, and co-founder and CTO of Diagrid. He also brings years of leadership at Microsoft on scalable cloud architecture.You can read the recap posts: Part 1 - Dapr: https://medium.com/p/eb2f4013d9a1/Part 2 - KEDA: https://medium.com/p/d74f75c0021a/Show Notes:00:00 - episode intro01:19 - guest intro and Dapr & KEDA intro04.53 - why Microsoft created KEDA14:43 - why Microsoft decided to open-source KEDA16:58 - why Microsoft created Dapr24:52 - observability in Dapr33:38 - shifting from logs to traces 37:46 - building a startup around foundation-led open source46:22 - agentic AI support in Dapr49:11 - Dapr updates and roadmap52:15 - KEDA updates and roadmap53:50 - Dapr at KubeCon NA55:08 - Jaeger celebrates 10th anniversary56:13 - OpenTelemetry Collector user survey56:58 - proposal for a new OTel SIG for resource metadata semantic conventions1:00:00 - outro Resources:Dapr: https://dapr.io/KEDA: https://keda.sh/ Dapr accepted to graduation, Dec 2024, my LI post: https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:7262354292794159105 Announcing Dapr AI Agents: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/12/announcing-dapr-ai-agents/ Jaeger 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-at-10-forged-in-community-reborn-in-opentelemetry-621d4eabdedaJaeger v2 and alignment with OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774Proposal for a new OpenTelemetry SIG: Service and Deployment Semantic Conventions: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2837/ OTel Collector Follow-up Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbpqBcCVfmRj_Rk_Sd6zaBGpfzGSBvSZ6CdVn6PPBbbmPIOw/viewform Socials:BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.socialTwitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠Dotan Horovits============Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovits LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/horovits.bsky.social Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovitsYaron Schneider==============Twitter: https://x.com/yaronschneiderLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaron-schneider-2130b7a3/ The podcast episodes are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.

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• ClickStack: ClickHouse’s New Observability Stack Unveiled - OpenObservability Talks S6E03

  The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHouse is doubling down on observability with the release of ClickStack, a new open source observability stack that bundles in ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry and  HyperDX frontend. I invited Mike Shi, the co-founder of HyperDX and co-creator of ClickStack, to tell us all about this new project. Mike is Head of Observability at ClickHouse, and brings prior observability experience with Elasticsearch and more.You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/73f129a179a3/Show Notes:00:00 episode and guest intro04:38 taking the open source path as an entrepreneur10:51 the HyperDX observability user experience 16:08 challenges in implementing observability directly on ClickHouse20:03 intro to ClickStack and incorporating OpenTelemetry32:35 balancing simplicity and flexibility36:15 SQL vs. Lucene query languages 39:06 performance, cardinality and the new JSON type52:14 use cases in production by OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and more55:38 episode outroResources:HyperDX https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx ClickStack https://clickhouse.com/docs/use-cases/observability/clickstack Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability: https://medium.com/p/9c0b299a04ddClickHouse: Breaking the Speed Limit for Observability and Analytics https://medium.com/p/2004160b2f5e New JSON data type for ClickHouse: https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-new-powerful-json-data-type-for-clickhouseSocials:BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.socialTwitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠Dotan Horovits============Twitter: @horovitsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovitsMastodon: @horovits@fosstodonBlueSky: @horovits.bsky.socialMike Shi=======Twitter: https://x.com/MikeShi42LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeshi42BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mikeshi42.bsky.socialOpenObservability 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.

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• Highlights from CNCF’s First Open Observability Summit - OpenObservability Talks S6E02

  We are overdue for a vendor neutral industry wide event dedicated to our favorite topic - open observability.Last month (June 2025) the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ran the first-ever Open Observability Summit, bringing together the world’s best experts in the field in a day packed with talks from project maintainers, end users and practitioners.We’re proud partners of the event, and are here to bring you the highlights from this industry-shaping event.This special episode has two parts, one recorded onsite before the event, covering conference goals, and insights from the talk submissions, and the other recorded after the event, covering the highlights of the events and the talks. The guests for is episode are two observability veterans: Alok Bhide, member of the event’s content committee and head of product innovation at Chronosphere; and Henrik Rexed, developer advocate at Dynatrace, CNCF Ambassador, and host of Is It Observable podcast.Catch up on everything you need to know from the first-ever Open Observability Summit.You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/d42c8826d6a5/Show Notes:00:00 - intro02:52 - Part 1 pre-event03:40 - guest intro Alok Bhide04:49 - a new community event for open observability06:58 - talk submission highlights from the CFP content reviewer12:34 - a view of the open observability stack and its use 16:42 - Fluent Bit alignment with OpenTelemetry20:08 - AI in observability25:34 - Part 2 talk highlights26:22 - Fluent Bit vs. OpenTelemetry Collector benchmark analysis37:51 - OpenSearch 3.1 release40:47 - eBay’s observability talk47:00 - Kotlin SDK for OTel talk for Android developers51:45 - Otel Collector fine-tuning talk53:52 - Broadcom OTel use case from mobile to mainframe56:43 - Spotify migration from in-house TSDB to VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus58:20 - OTel Collector replacement in Rust with the Rotel project1:00:58 - Noisy neighbors network observability1:03:04 - rising awareness of OTel semantic conventions 1:05:50 - outro Resources:Open Observability Summit + OTel Community Day: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-observability-summit-otel-community-day/eBay innovation with open source observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ycNhzRVSbU&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=35 More on eBay’s journey to planet-scale observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UsU3nRglhA&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D Spotify talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87koDlpKDR4&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7Kotlin SDK for OTel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di5nhYvUh6w&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7More on mobile observability with OTel: https://medium.com/p/2eb847c41941 OpenTelemtry Collector vs. Fluent Bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZho5W9L_Z8&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=8Telemetry Pipelines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1g5ZWAc1Y&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=30 OTel Collector in Rust with Rotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQnP8Ct7qY&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NFT2PGItX2idBf7v8fHcy7&index=16 Rotel project repo: https://github.com/streamfold/rotel  Noisy neighbor detection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVqiOtXTEFA Socials:BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.socialTwitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠Dotan Horovits============Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovits LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/horovits.bsky.social Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovitsHenrik Rexed===========LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrexed/BlueSky: @hrexed.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@isitobservable Alok Bhide=========LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albhide/

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• OpenSearch 3.0 Unveiled: Vector DB on Steroids and More - OpenObservability Talks S6E01

  OpenSearch has become a cornerstone of open source search and observability, empowering developers and organizations to derive meaningful insights from unstructured data at scale. The past year marks a significant milestone in its journey, with OpenSearch officially joining The Linux Foundation, further cementing its position in the open source ecosystem.Now, after two years of 2.x, the next major release is here, and it brings significant advancements in performance, data management, vector database functionality, and much more. In this episode we dive into the 3.0 release, across lexical, semantic, and hybrid search, vector database improvements, observability capabilities, performance boosts, and much more. We also look at the community and ecosystem, the recent move of the project under The Linux Foundation, and some of the interesting use cases out there.  Our guests for this episode are Carl Meadows, Chair of the Governing Board of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, and Pallavi Priyadarshini, member of the Technical Steering Committee and the OpenSearch 3.0 release manager.The episode was live-streamed on 9 June 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4T-ksTAmxgYou can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/fb526e0d44e5/Show Notes:00:00 - intro03:30 - OpenSearch joins the Linux Foundation06:05 - the community and Technical Steering Committee11:39 - why now 3.0?13:53 - performance improvements17:55 - vector database and MCP for agentic AI support23:20 - what's new with observability30:14 - Discover UI view and anomaly detection33:55 - the vision for OpenSearch and differentiation37:33 - Data Prepper ingestion component44:28 - gRPC and Protobuf support49:47 - 3.1 release and the 3.x line55:25 - where to follow and join the community1:03:12 - outro Resources:OpenSearch 3.0 announcement blog: https://opensearch.org/blog/unveiling-opensearch-3-0/OpenSearch public roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/opensearch-project/projects/220 OpenSearchCon and other events: https://opensearch.org/events/New Observability Special Interest Group: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7336739972877537281/Socials:BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠Dotan Horovits============Twitter: @horovitsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovitsMastodon: @horovits@fosstodonBlueSky: @horovits.bsky.socialCarl Meadows============Twitter: https://x.com/Carl_F_MeadowsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlfmeadows/Pallavi Priyadarshini=================LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pallavipr/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.We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠⁠  ⁠https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠⁠

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