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OpenObservability Talks

On OpenObservability Talks we discuss harnessing the power of open source to advance observability initiatives for developers, DevOps and SRE practitioners around the world. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks You can find us on X (Twitter) @openobserv and BlueSky @openobservability.bsky.social

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01:01:08

OpenTelemetry for GenAI and the OpenLLMetry project -...

OpenObservability Talks ·

2025/11/26

Generative AI is everywhere, but how do we monitor and observe it? OpenTelemetry has been a prominent tool and standard for observability, and recently the OTel community has been aiming to expand its scope and cover GenAI workloads with semantic conventions and tools.In this episode, Horovits is joined by Nir Gazit, creator of the OpenLLMetry project, and member of the OpenTelemetry Generative AI SIG. We discuss new semantic conventions, tracing prompts and model behavior, the OpenLLMetry project’s

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01:00:39

Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation -...

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2025/10/26

eBPF holds the potential for true automatic instrumentation for observability. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) is a new addition to the OpenTelemetry project, which brings the promise of a multi-language, multi-protocol auto-instrumentation, thanks to a code donation by Grafana Labs. Our guest today is Mario Macías, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and OpenTelemetry eBFP Instrument maintainer. Macías joins Horovits to share about OBI, its origins, capabilities and how it fits

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01:01:00

Cloud Native Spotlight: KEDA & Dapr Projects -...

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2025/09/28

In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means for observability. From event-driven architectures to autoscaling and service runtime, we discuss how these building blocks fit into modern systems. We discuss major capabilities around resilience, scalability, observability and even agentic AI support.Our guest for this episode is Yaron Schneider, co-creator of both Dapr and KEDA projects, and co-founder

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00:59:11

ClickStack: ClickHouse’s New Observability Stack...

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2025/08/30

The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHouse is doubling down on observability with the release of ClickStack, a new open source observability stack that bundles in ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry and HyperDX frontend. I invited Mike Shi, the co-founder of HyperDX and co-creator of ClickStack, to tell us all about this new project. Mike is Head of Observability at ClickHouse, and brings prior

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01:07:03

Highlights from CNCF’s First Open Observability...

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2025/07/30

We are overdue for a vendor neutral industry wide event dedicated to our favorite topic - open observability.Last month (June 2025) the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ran the first-ever Open Observability Summit, bringing together the world’s best experts in the field in a day packed with talks from project maintainers, end users and practitioners.We’re proud partners of the event, and are here to bring you the highlights from this industry-shaping event.This special episode has two parts,

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01:04:14

OpenSearch 3.0 Unveiled: Vector DB on Steroids and...

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2025/06/25

OpenSearch has become a cornerstone of open source search and observability, empowering developers and organizations to derive meaningful insights from unstructured data at scale. The past year marks a significant milestone in its journey, with OpenSearch officially joining The Linux Foundation, further cementing its position in the open source ecosystem.Now, after two years of 2.x, the next major release is here, and it brings significant advancements in performance, data management, vector

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00:58:27

ClickHouse: Breaking the Speed Limit for...

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2025/05/27

The ClickHouse® project is a rising star in observability and analytics, challenging performance conventions with its breakneck speed. This open source OLAP column store, originally developed at Yandex to power their web analytics platform at massive scale, has quickly evolved into one of the hottest open source observability data stores around. Its published performance benchmarks have been the topic of conversation, outperforming many legacy databases and setting a new bar for fast queries over

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01:02:54

CNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon EU 2025 -...

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2025/04/28

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 show floor!In this special recap episode, I’m joined by two CNCF Ambassadors and community powerhouses: Kasper Borg Nissen, the Co-Chair of this KubeCon as well as of the KubeCon 2024 editions, and a Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0; and William Rizzo, Consulting Architect at Mirantis and Linkerd Ambassador.Together, we unpack the major themes from

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01:03:02

Observability for Mobile with OpenTelemetry -...

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2025/03/27

Observability into mobile native applications presents unique challenges, from capturing real user interactions to dealing with network constraints and battery efficiency. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we explore the special characteristics of client-side telemetry, and how OpenTelemetry helps generate mobile client telemetry for real user monitoring (RUM), enabling deeper insights into performance and user experience. We host Hanson Ho, Android architect at Embrace and an approver on

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01:00:24

Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability -...

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2025/02/27

Shopify operates at massive scale, running thousands of services and processing billions of events per second. To tackle the challenges of observability at this scale, they built Observe—an in-house observability stack that makes use of open-source tools and specifications. In fact, they replaced an older vendors-based system, in an awe-inspiring migration project. But why build their own stack? Which open source tools did they use? How did they shape the user experience to their needs?Joining us to

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01:01:06

Open Source AI: Perspectives from the OSI -...

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2025/01/30

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 intriguing episode as we host Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI has been the steward of the Open Source Definition for over two decades, and has recently launched its first draft of the Open Source AI Definition—OSAID 1.0—following intense community discussions, and amid corporate and governmental policy

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01:01:41

End-of-Year Observability Retrospective with Charity...

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2024/12/22

In this special year-end episode of OpenObservability Talks, we are thrilled to host Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, for an insightful conversation on the state of observability. Charity and our host Horovits recently delivered keynotes at Open Source Observability Day, which sparked fascinating discussions on the evolution of open observability and its impact on the broader industry.Together, they run a 2024 yearly postmortem on the key insights and trends, exploring what the

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00:59:54

CNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon 2024 -...

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2024/11/25

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 episode in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the foundation behind KubeCon+CloudNativeCon and the cloud-native projects.Dotan Horovits, our host and a CNCF Ambassador, will be joined by an all-star panel of cloud-native experts—CNCF Ambassadors Viktor Farcic and Max Körbächer—each bringing their unique insights and

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01:03:01

Jaeger V2 Unveiled: Powered by OpenTelemetry -...

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2024/10/28

In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, Dotan Horovits sits down with Yuri Shkuro, the creator of Jaeger, to unveil the highly anticipated Jaeger V2. This major release introduces a new architecture with deep OpenTelemetry integration, which promises more flexibility, performance, extensibility and ease of use. Join us as Yuri shares insider details on the challenges, innovations, and roadmap for Jaeger V2 towards a more efficient and scalable distributed tracing solution.Yuri is a software

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01:06:09

Prometheus 3.0 Unveiled: PromCon Highlights with...

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2024/09/12

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 ecosystem. And this year we’ve got some major news: Prometheus’s long-awaited major release, v3.0! Join us to hear all about the revamped user interface, about Remote Write 2.0, and about Prometheus’ goal to become the default backend for storing OpenTelemetry metrics, featuring native OTel support, and much more. We’ll cover these and more highlights

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01:04:16

What’s New with OpenShift and the Observability...

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2024/08/28

OpenShift is an open-source container application platform that brings Docker and Kubernetes together to help organizations build, deploy, and manage containerized applications. Open source OpenShift (OKD) powers some of the largest Kubernetes clusters, such as in CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Join us for a fireside chat with an OpenShift veteran Radek Vokál, on the current state of the OpenShift project, its vibrant community, and the pivotal role Red Hat plays in its

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01:02:02

WebAssembly: The Next Frontier in Cloud-Native...

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2024/07/25

Time to explore the next frontier in cloud-native evolution: WebAssembly (WASM). Moving beyond containers and Kubernetes, WASM bears the promise to revolutionize the cloud landscape with unparalleled performance, portability, and security. Can it actually deliver on this promise? We discussed this and more it in this episode.We delved into how WASM is transforming the way we build and run cloud-native applications, enabling a more efficient, scalable, and flexible infrastructure. We also got latest

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01:00:25

Redis is No Longer Open Source. Is Valkey the...

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2024/06/27

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 community did not give up, and started work to fork Redis to keep it open. In this episode, we delve into the Valkey project, a prominent fork of Redis, established under the Linux Foundation, which brought together important figures from the Redis community, as well as leading industry giants including AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle and others. Valkey has

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01:01:35

FOSS in Flux: Redis Relicensing and the Future of...

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2024/05/30

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 turning to the dark side. On the other hand, we’ve seen active forks aiming to keep these projects open gaining momentum. What does it mean for the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement? Is this a trend or just a passing wave? What can we learn from it as vendors and as a community? In this special episode concluding the fourth season of

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01:01:30

KubeCon Paris Highlights and AI Spotlight on K8sGPT -...

OpenObservability Talks ·

2024/04/24

KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris was the biggest event of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to date, with over 12k participants. Have you missed it? We've got you covered! Join not one but two CNCF Ambassadors as they explore the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about. But that's not all! We'll also zoom in on K8sgpt, a new entrant to the CNCF’s sandbox that uses generative AI to give Kubernetes superpowers to everyone. Does

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