Cloud Native Berlin

OTel Night Berlin v2025.11 - Scaling Observability & Collector Adoption

Attendees: 52
in-person
Event date
November 28, 2025
06:00 PM - 10:00 PM CET
Location
SAP SE (BER01), Berlin
About this event

Join us for the next OTel Night Berlin at SAP's event space on Friday, November 28th! This edition focuses on real-world OpenTelemetry implementations at scale.

What to expect:

Two practitioners will share their hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry in production environments:

Anfal Haider (Wolt) will discuss scaling observability in a distributed microservices architecture, tackling metric cardinality challenges, and their journey toward OpenTelemetry adoption. Learn how they reduced custom metrics by 39% while improving observability quality.

Blake Irvin (SumUp) will share practical insights on OTel Collector adoption, covering the cultural, technical, and operational challenges teams face when implementing the collector at scale.

Schedule:

  • 18:00 - Doors open, networking & refreshments

  • 18:30 - Welcome & introductions

  • 18:45 - First talk

  • 19:30 - Q&A

  • 19:45 - Second talk

  • 20:30 - Q&A & open discussion

  • 21:00+ - Networking

Food and beverages provided.

Capacity is limited - register early to secure your spot

Organizers