The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon EU in Amsterdam from March 23 - 26, 2026. Register today to join us!
Read on to learn about all the events related to OpenTelemetry during KubeCon.
Talks and maintainer sessions We Deleted Our Observability Stack and Rebuilt It With OTel: 12 Engineers to 4 at 20K+ Clusters
by Yash Sharma, DigitalOcean; Kunju Perath, DigitalOcean
Tuesday March 24, 2026 11:15 - 11:45CET

OpenTelemetry's platform is an observability framework, offering insights into distributed tracing, metrics collection, and log management for cloud-native applications. Through documentation, tutorials, and community contributions, OpenTelemetry provides insights into instrumenting applications to monitor performance and troubleshoot issues. Developers and DevOps teams can learn about distributed tracing standards, telemetry data formats, and integration with observability tools to gain visibility into complex distributed systems.

OpenTelemetry

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 takes place in Amsterdam from March 23-26, featuring extensive OpenTelemetry content. The event includes 21 main conference talks covering topics like OTel Collector updates, profiling alpha, schema inference, OTTL debugging, and cost optimization strategies. Observability Day on March 23 offers 24 additional sessions on telemetry management, OpAMP, baggage handling, and sustainable computing. A Maintainer Summit on March 22 provides exclusive collaboration opportunities for OpenTelemetry organization members.