OpenObservability Talks

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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Twitter: @cra
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.

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 intro
01:19 - guest intro and Dapr & KEDA intro
04.53 - why Microsoft created KEDA
14:43 - why Microsoft decided to open-source KEDA
16:58 - why Microsoft created Dapr
24:52 - observability in Dapr
33:38 - shifting from logs to traces 
37:46 - building a startup around foundation-led open source
46:22 - agentic AI support in Dapr
49:11 - Dapr updates and roadmap
52:15 - KEDA updates and roadmap
53:50 - Dapr at KubeCon NA
55:08 - Jaeger celebrates 10th anniversary
56:13 - OpenTelemetry Collector user survey
56:58 - proposal for a new OTel SIG for resource metadata semantic conventions
1:00:00 - 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-621d4eabdeda

Jaeger v2 and alignment with OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774

Proposal 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 

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Dotan Horovits
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Yaron Schneider
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaron-schneider-2130b7a3/ 

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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 intro
04:38 taking the open source path as an entrepreneur
10:51 the HyperDX observability user experience 
16:08 challenges in implementing observability directly on ClickHouse
20:03 intro to ClickStack and incorporating OpenTelemetry
32:35 balancing simplicity and flexibility
36:15 SQL vs. Lucene query languages 
39:06 performance, cardinality and the new JSON type
52:14 use cases in production by OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and more
55:38 episode outro

Resources:
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/9c0b299a04dd

ClickHouse: 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-clickhouse

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Dotan Horovits
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Mike Shi
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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.