SRE DAY 2026 Talk – Site Reliability, DevOps and Cloud – OpenTelemetry Playtime is Over
Conference Talk
SRE DAY 2026 Talk – Site Reliability, DevOps and Cloud – OpenTelemetry Playtime is Over
May 21 All day
Our Open Source Advocate, Joshua Lee, will be speaking at SREday Munich – Site Reliability, DevOps and Cloud, on one day, with 10+ speakers, in MaibornWolff, Munich, Germany.
So you finally got your organization to invest in OpenTelemetry. You carefully evaluated observability backends and picked the perfect one. Everything is awesome. Then, twelve months later, your costs have skyrocketed, and you can’t explain why. What happened?
This talk examines how to emit meaningful telemetry while keeping costs under control, by exploring:
- What to actually instrument
- Which metrics to focus on
- Pipeline efficiency with OTel Arrow
- Applying sampling, filtering, and intentional instrumentation to cut down on noise
- Schema management and validation with tools like Weaver
We’ll review the ingredients of a mature observability implementation with OpenTelemetry — one that grows with you instead of overwhelming you. You’ll learn how to apply cost-effective techniques to achieve meaningful observability.
As more organizations embrace OpenTelemetry and mature their observability practice, we find ourselves coming out of the OpenTelemetry “honeymoon period.” We’ve gone from “We’re using OpenTelemetry, therefore we have observability” to “How do we actually make this work for us?” This talk will equip organizations to build a sustainable, long-lasting observability practice built on OpenTelemetry.
About the Presenters
Joshua Lee – Open Source Developer Advocate at Altinity
Whether it’s operators or observability, agile or accessibility, his expertise shines because he is passionate about all of it. He’s been building software for more than a decade, and he loves sharing experiences via public speaking. He is currently a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he helps create educational content about ClickHouse® and OpenTelemetry, and he is a contributor to the OpenTelemetry project.
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