Dok Talks #126- Automatically Instrument Kubernetes Apps with OpenTelemetry // James Blackwood-Sewell

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

The rise of Kubernetes has triggered an exponential growth of metric and trace data. This talk explores capturing and persisting telemetry data from Kubernetes apps without any specific code changes using the OpenTelemetry Operator.

BIO

James Blackwood-Sewell is currently a Principal Developer Advocate at TimescaleDB in Sydney. Before that he meandered through the PostgreSQL, Kubernetes and Prometheus landscapes as the Chief Architect at Jirotech.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

Storing observability data from Kubernetes on Kubernetes doesn't need to be hard - sometimes you don't even need to change your code to do it!