Observability Summit North America returns May 21–22 in Minneapolis, convening practitioners, contributors, and engineers to advance open observability…

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CNCF has announced the schedule for Observability Summit North America 2026, taking place May 21–22 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, co-located with Open Source Summit North America. The two-day event features 45+ sessions across tracks covering AI and MCP in observability, OpenTelemetry and OTTL deep dives, DevOps integration, scalability challenges, end-user case studies, and community-driven development. Notable sessions include scaling OpenTelemetry to 10 million spans per second at Reddit and enterprise-scale SpanMetrics at Comcast. Early bird registration is $349 through March 24, with scholarship applications open through April 6.

CNCF Releases 2026 Observability Summit North America Schedule as Cloud Native Observability Adoption Expands