OpenObservability Talks
Episodes
VictoriaMetrics: From Monitoring to Observability
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
VictoriaMetrics is a fascinating open source project for metrics monitoring. In the past couple of years the project has expanded its scope from monit...
Operating OpenTelemetry at Scale with OpAMP - OpenObservability Talks S6E09
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge ar...
The State of OpenTelemetry: Insights from OTel Unplugged Europe - OpenObservability Talks S6E08
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
February 2026 the OpenTelemetry community gathered at OTel Unplugged event in Brussels. It was the first time this unconference was held in Europe, br...
A Decade of CNCF: Fireside Chat with the CTO - OpenObservability Talks S6E07
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
OpenTelemetry for GenAI and the OpenLLMetry project - OpenObservability Talks S6E06
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Generative AI is everywhere, but how do we monitor and observe it? OpenTelemetry has been a prominent tool and standard for observability, and recentl...
Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation - OpenObservability Talks S6E05
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenT...
Cloud Native Spotlight: KEDA & Dapr Projects - OpenObservability Talks S6E04
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means fo...
ClickStack: ClickHouse’s New Observability Stack Unveiled - OpenObservability Talks S6E03
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHous...
Highlights from CNCF’s First Open Observability Summit - OpenObservability Talks S6E02
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are overdue for a vendor neutral industry wide event dedicated to our favorite topic - open observability.Last month (June 2025) the Cloud Native C...
OpenSearch 3.0 Unveiled: Vector DB on Steroids and More - OpenObservability Talks S6E01
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenSearch has become a cornerstone of open source search and observability, empowering developers and organizations to derive meaningful insights fro...
ClickHouse: Breaking the Speed Limit for Observability and Analytics - OpenObservability Talks S5E12
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ClickHouse® project is a rising star in observability and analytics, challenging performance conventions with its breakneck speed. This open sour...
CNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon EU 2025 - OpenObservability Talks S5E11
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
KubeCon Europe 2025 in London has wrapped up, and we’re bringing you all the highlights, trends, and behind-the-scenes insights straight from the sh...
Observability for Mobile with OpenTelemetry - OpenObservability Talks S5E10
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Observability into mobile native applications presents unique challenges, from capturing real user interactions to dealing with network constraints an...
Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability - OpenObservability Talks S5E09
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shopify operates at massive scale, running thousands of services and processing billions of events per second. To tackle the challenges of observabili...
Open Source AI: Perspectives from the OSI - OpenObservability Talks S5E08
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know pretty well what open source means and what AI means. But what does open source AI mean? Is there even such a thing? Join us for an intr...
End-of-Year Observability Retrospective with Charity Majors - OpenObservability Talks S5E07
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special year-end episode of OpenObservability Talks, we are thrilled to host Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, for an insightfu...
CNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon 2024 - OpenObservability Talks S5E06
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Catch up on everything you missed at KubeCon North America 2024! Join us for a special recap that brings you closer to the action. This is a special e...
Jaeger V2 Unveiled: Powered by OpenTelemetry - OpenObservability Talks S5E05
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, Dotan Horovits sits down with Yuri Shkuro, the creator of Jaeger, to unveil the highly anticipated Jaeger ...
Prometheus 3.0 Unveiled: PromCon Highlights with Julius Volz - OpenObservability Talks S5E04
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, is back in Berlin, and we’re here to bring you the highlights from the Prometheus ec...
What’s New with OpenShift and the Observability Frontier - OpenObservability Talks S5E03
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenShift is an open-source container application platform that brings Docker and Kubernetes together to help organizations build, deploy, and manage ...
WebAssembly: The Next Frontier in Cloud-Native Evolution - OpenObservability Talks S5E02
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time to explore the next frontier in cloud-native evolution: WebAssembly (WASM). Moving beyond containers and Kubernetes, WASM bears the promise to re...
Redis is No Longer Open Source. Is Valkey the Successor? - OpenObservability Talks S5E01
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Redis is no longer open source. Just a few months ago, in March 2024, the project was relicensed, leaving its vast community confused. But the communi...
FOSS in Flux: Redis Relicensing and the Future of Open Source: OpenObservability Talks S4E12
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the past few years we’ve been witnessing tectonic shifts in the open source realm, with established projects taken off open source or otherwise t...
KubeCon Paris Highlights and AI Spotlight on K8sGPT - OpenObservability Talks S4E11
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris was the biggest event of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to date, with over 12k participants. Have you misse...
Charting New Territory: OpenTelemetry Embraces Profiling - OpenObservability Talks S4E10
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenTelemetry is expanding beyond the traditional “three pillars of observability” and introduces a groundbreaking addition to its signals - Conti...
Decoding .NET8: Unveiling Cloud-Native Observability - OpenObservability Talks S4E09
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The .NET programming language is taking cloud native deployment and observability seriously, and most notably with the recent announcement of .NET Asp...
Scaling Platform Engineering: Shopify’s Blueprint - OpenObservability Talks S4E08
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, join us as we delve into the intricate world of Platform Engineering with Aparna Subramanian, Director of Production Engineering at S...
Kubernetes and Beyond: A Year-End Reflection with Kelsey Hightower - OpenObservability Talks S4E07
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode we wrapped up the year 2023 with none other than the cloud-native maestro, Kelsey Hightower! We looked into the highs and lows...
KubeCon NA Highlights and Istio Spotlight with Lin Sun - OpenObservability Talks S4E06
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you missed KubeCon North America in Chicago? This one’s for you! In this episode, we explored the latest and greatest highlights from the event...
PromCon Recap: Unveiling Perses and Prometheus Ecosystem Updates - OpenObservability Talks S4E05
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, took place in Berlin 28-29 September 2023, and we’re here to bring you the highlight...
Continuous Observability: Shedding Light on CI/CD Pipelines - OpenObservability Talks S4E02
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
DevOps is not just about operating the software in production, but also about releasing that software to production. Well-functioning CI/CD pipelines ...
Terraform is no longer open source. Is OpenTofu the successor? - OpenObservability Talks S4E04
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Terraform is no longer open source. This is the news we got last month (August 2023), when HashiCorp announced its decision to relicense its open sour...
What's New with Fluentd & Fluent Bit - OpenObservability Talks S4E03
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fluentd and Fluent Bit are two highly popular open source projects for data collection and log forwarding in the realm of observability. Fluentd's...
eBay’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability with Open Source - OpenObservability Talks S4E01
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
eBay is a high scale end user of open source observability. Collecting telemetry from millions of endpoints, and running thousands of queries per seco...
From Spotify to Open Source: The Backstory of Backstage - OpenObservability Talks S3E12
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With over 1,000 companies using it and 21.5K+ stars on GitHub, the Backstage open source project is quickly becoming a go-to tool for managing develop...
Live from KubeCon: Insider Insights with CNCF's Head of Ecosystem - OpenObservability Talks S3E11
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode, live from the KubeCon show floor in Amsterdam. Join us to hear the hot updates from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 as...
Cloud Native Unplugged: A Fireside Chat with CNCF's CTO - OpenObservability Talks S3E10
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is the home of the most prominent open source projects used today, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD...
FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost with OpenCost - OpenObservability Talks S3E09
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many organizations struggle in understanding and monitoring the costs of their Kubernetes workloads, cloud infrastructure and cloud native application...
Is Kubernetes Monitoring Flawed? - OpenObservability Talks S3E08
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A 3-node Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus will ship around 40k active series by default! Do we really need all that data? The current state of Kuber...
What's new in the Prometheus ecosystem? - OpenObservability Talks S3E07
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So much has been going on with the Prometheus project and its ecosystem, that it’s time to have a proper catch up. And there’s no better person to...
Meta’s data driven approach to observability - OpenObservability Talks S3E06
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At Meta (Facebook, Instragram et al) everything is data, and data driven approach is the rule, from product to engineering, from HR to finance. This i...
Platform Engineering: DevOps evolution or a fancy rename? - OpenObservability Talks S3E05
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Plat...
Where Are My App’s Traces?? Instrumentation in Practice - OpenObservability Talks S3E04
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Instrumentation is that black magic that makes our application emit traces, logs, metrics or other telemetry. How does it work? What options are avail...
SigNoz: Open-source observability with Pranay - OpenObservability Talks S3E03
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hosted by Jonah Kowall we are excited to introduce Pranay Prateek the co-founder and creator of SigNoz to the audience. He is an entr...
Expensive Observability: The Cardinality Challenge - OpenObservability Talks S3E02
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all collect logs, metrics and perhaps traces and other data types, in support of our observability. But this can get expensive pretty quickly, espe...
OpenTelemetry and the Vision for Unified Open Observability - OpenObservability Talks S3E01
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
OpenTelemetry is one of the most fascinating and ambitious open source projects of this era. It’s currently the second most active project in the CN...
Observability for Developers Demystified - OpenObservability Talks E2E12
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Developers hate monitoring, but we need it. We need it in many points of the software development lifecycle: before deprecating an API, before launchi...
OpenSearch 2.0 and beyond with Eli - OpenObservability Talks E2E11
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. Th...
SLO Driven Engineering: from Dev to Prod - OpenObservability Talks S2E10
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s SRE Book popularized the concept of Service Level Objective (SLO) and the SLO-driven approach. But what does it really mean to make SLO dri...
Building web-scale observability at Slack, Pinterest & Twitter - OpenObservability Talks S2E09
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to build observability in a web-scale company such as Slack, Pinterest and Twitter? On this episode of OpenObsevability Talks I'...
SaaS Observability Done Right - OpenObservability Talks S2E08
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SaaS (software as a service) is a popular model for many businesses today. SaaS businesses need agility to move fast and remain competitive. This mean...
Prometheus Pitfalls and the Rise of Continuous Profiling - OpenObservability Talks S2E07
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve grown to rely on “the three pillars” for observability - logs, metrics and traces. Popular frameworks such as Prometheus have helped popul...
BPF origin story and the future of telemetry analytics OpenObservability Talks S2E06
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
OpenObservability Talks S2E06: Hosting Steve McCanne We hear a lot about BPF in the industry today, applying this flexible technology to solve so m...
SRE at Google: Planet-scale observability - OpenObservability Talks S2E05
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how services are operated at Google’s scale? Here’s your opportunity to find out. Ramón will share how his SRE team runs G...
Observability Into Your Business And FinOps - OpenObservability Talks S2E04
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Observability is becoming a common practice for DevOps teams monitoring and troubleshooting IT systems. But Observability can offer much more than tha...
Fluentd for logging and metrics and path forward - OpenObservability Talks S2E03
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll talk with industry veteran and product manager Anurag Gupta who has been working in open source observability for over 4 year...
Prometheus, OpenMetrics, and the CNCF Observability Ecosystem - OpenObservability Talks S2E02
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The CNCF has a rich suite to address monitoring Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads. First of which is Prometheus, which is widely adopted, with gre...
Codeless Kubernetes Observability with eBPF - OpenObservability Talks S2E01
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Current observability practice is largely based on manual instrumentation, which creates a barrier to entry for many wishing to implement observabilit...
OpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of Elasticsearch? - OpenObservability Talks S1E12
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
OpenSearch project was born out of the passion for Elasticsearch and Kibana and the desire to keep them open source in the face of Elastic’s decisio...
Diving deep into Jaeger and OpenTelemetry with Juraci Paixão Kröhling - OpenObservability Talks S1E11
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are thrilled to have Juraci Kröhling a Software Engineer at Red Hat; CNCF, Maintainer for Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. He will be live and in-person...
Interoperability of open-source observability and new signal in the neighborhood, profiling! - OpenObservability Talks S1E10
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Jonah Kowall and Bartek Plotka for a discussion on the latest happening topics on open source observability. Bartek works on many projects in ope...
How Much Observability Is Enough? - OpenObservability Talks S1E9
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The ninth of our OpenObservability Talks has Jujhar Singh, Global DevSecOps Practice Lead at The Economist. How much observability is enough? What is ...
Put the OPEN in Observability: Elasticsearch and Kibana relicensing and community chat - OpenObservability Talks S1E8
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The eighth of our OpenObservability Talks has Tomer Levy, CEO & Founder of Logz.io. The community is in turmoil around Elastic's announced plan to...
An Observability chat with Andy Thurai - OpenObservability Talks S1E7
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The seventh of our OpenObservability Talks has Andy Thurai, Senior Analyst at GigaOM. Jonah Kowall, CTO and Andy Thurai will talk about Andy's career ...
All Metrics Are Wrong, Some Are Useful - OpenObservability Talks S1E6
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The sixth of our OpenObservability Talks has Avishai Ish-Shalom, Developer Advocate at ScyllaDB. We trust our metrics to show us the status of our sys...
Microservices Observability for Developers and Pre-Production - OpenObservability Talks S1E5
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The fifth of our OpenObservability Talks has Michael Haberman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aspecto. There's a lot of discussion on how to achieve observab...
Distributed Tracing at Uber-Scale - OpenObservability TalksS1E4
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The fourth of our OpenObservability Talks has Albert Teoh from the Jaeger project. Distributed tracing has been gaining momentum with the growing popu...
Long-Term Metrics with M3 and Prometheus - OpenObservability Talks S1E3
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3 of OpenObservability Talks, where we'll be hosting Matt Schallert of Chronosphere. The topic for this episode is Long-Term Metrics wit...
A chat with Paul Bruce and Jonah Kowall about the OpenTelemetry community - OpenObservability Talks S1E2
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2 of OpenObservability Talks, where we'll be hosting Paul Bruce of Neotys and Jonah Kowall of Logz.io. Our topic of discussion today is ...
Five Tips on Application Monitoring with Prometheus - OpenObservability Talks S1E1
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first-ever OpenObservability Talks! This was first streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability on June 25th and the full video ...