Session Title: When Things Go Sideways: Troubleshooting the OTel Operator

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Operator is a great tool that helps make your life a little easier by managing OTel for you in your Kubernetes cluster, by: Managing the deployment of the OpenTelemetry Collector Managing the configuration of a fleet of OpenTelemetry Collectors via OpAMP integration Injecting and configuring auto-instrumentation into your pods But what happens when THINGS. DON’T. WORK??

In this talk, Adriana and Reese will cover:

• An overview of the OTel Operator 
• Common installation issues
• Common auto-instrumentation issues
• Common OTel Collector deployment issues
• * …and how to tackle them all

Attendees will walk away from this session with a better understanding of how they can leverage the Operator, and be empowered to use it with confidence.

Speakers: Reese Lee, New Relic & Adriana Villela, ServiceNow Cloud Observability

Date/Time: November 12 (Observability Day - Co-located event) at 10:40 am MST

Location: Salt Palace / Level 2 / 255 B

Find me on LinkedIn: Reese Lee

Session Title: Simplifying OpenTelemetry with Configuration

Learning how to use a new tool, and using it well enough to get value out of it quickly is really important. Configuring OpenTelemetry SDKs and instrumentation is essential, but programmatic configuration is cumbersome and environment variables are limited. OpenTelemetry file configuration is the community’s next generation config tool. Building on the original flattened environment variable based scheme, file configuration introduces tooling for configuring SDKs and instrumentation which accommodates the complexities of how people use OpenTelemetry in practice.

Come learn about:

• What the OpenTelemetry Configuration Schema is and why it exists. 
• How language agnostic file configuration provides OpenTelemetry adopters the tools needed to support complex scenarios.
• How various components in OpenTelemetry have adopted the configuration schema.
• Using a single configuration to configure OpenTelemetry SDKs in multiple languages and the Collector.

Speakers: Jack Berg, New Relic & Alex Boten, Honeycomb

Date/Time: November 12 (Observability Day - Co-located event) at 11:15 am MST

Location: Salt Palace / Level 2 / 255 E

Find me on Linkedin: Jack Berg

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