Cloud Native CDMX - Carbon as a First-Class Signal: Designing a Standard for OpenTelemetry
🚀 Cloud Native CDMX Online! New edition of our chapter in virtual format!
We keep building the Cloud Native community in Mexico City with a new session of learning, networking, and technology — this time from the comfort of your home.
- 📅 Tuesday, November 3, 2026
- 🕛 19:00 (CET)
- 💻 Online event
- 🎟️ Completely free admission!
This session will feature a high-level technical talk:
🎤 Carbon as a First-Class Signal: Designing a Standard for OpenTelemetry by Diana Todea
OpenTelemetry helps us measure latency, errors, and availability. But as sustainability moves into engineering, one question remains unanswered: how do we observe carbon?
This talk explores Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) through the lens of OpenTelemetry semantic conventions. Rather than focusing on sustainability reporting, we examine the technical challenge of modeling carbon as telemetry: what entities should emissions be attributed to, which attributes should be standardized, and whether carbon belongs in metrics, traces, resource metadata, or all three.
We will explore how carbon-related signals can be collected, enriched, and visualized alongside traditional observability data. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of semantic conventions, telemetry design trade-offs, and the opportunities for OpenTelemetry to support a new generation of operational signals.
Key takeaways:
- Understanding SCI as an observability signal
- Designing semantic conventions for carbon telemetry
- Trade-offs between metrics, traces, and resource attributes
- Practical implementation patterns using OpenTelemetry
- Future directions for green observability
🗣️ About Diana Todea: CNCF Ambassador and Operational Resilience TAG lead, co-leads the Neurodiversity Merge Forward community, and organizes Cloud Native Days Romania. Professionally, she is the Head of Developer Relations Engineering at VictoriaMetrics, where she works at the intersection of developer experience, observability, and open source community engagement. With experience as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer specialized in Observability, Diana is passionate about the Cloud Native ecosystem and sustainability in software engineering. 🇷🇴
Cloud Native CDMX continues to grow with the mission of building a strong, inclusive, and passionate technical community around the Cloud Native ecosystem in Mexico.
Be part of the community! 🙌
#CloudNativeCDMX #CloudNative #CloudNativeMexico #CNCF #CNCFCommunity #CNCFAmbassador #CommunityMeetup #TechCommunity #TechCDMX #OpenTelemetry #Observability #GreenSoftware #SCI #SoftwareCarbonIntensity #Sustainability #CloudNativeLatam #GreenObservability #Telemetry #SemanticConventions #VictoriaMetrics
🚀 ¡Cloud Native CDMX Online! ¡Nueva edición de nuestro capítulo en formato virtual!
Seguimos construyendo comunidad Cloud Native en Ciudad de México con una nueva sesión de aprendizaje, networking y tecnología, esta vez desde la comodidad de tu hogar.
- 📅 Martes 3 de Noviembre de 2026
- 🕛 19:00 hrs (CET)
- 💻 Evento en línea
- 🎟️ ¡Entrada completamente gratuita!
Esta sesión contará con una ponencia de alto nivel técnico:
🎤 Carbon as a First-Class Signal: Diseñando un estándar para OpenTelemetry por Diana Todea
OpenTelemetry nos ayuda a medir latencia, errores y disponibilidad. Pero a medida que la sostenibilidad se integra en la ingeniería, una pregunta sigue sin respuesta: ¿cómo observamos el carbono?
En esta charla exploraremos la Intensidad de Carbono del Software (SCI) a través de las convenciones semánticas de OpenTelemetry. En lugar de enfocarnos en reportes de sostenibilidad, examinaremos el desafío técnico de modelar el carbono como telemetría: ¿a qué entidades deben atribuirse las emisiones?, ¿qué atributos deben estandarizarse? y ¿el carbono pertenece a métricas, trazas, metadatos de recursos o a los tres?
Exploraremos cómo las señales relacionadas con el carbono pueden recolectarse, enriquecerse y visualizarse junto con los datos tradicionales de observabilidad. Los asistentes obtendrán una comprensión más profunda de las convenciones semánticas, las decisiones de diseño en telemetría y las oportunidades para que OpenTelemetry soporte una nueva generación de señales operacionales.
Lo que te llevarás de esta sesión:
- Entender SCI como una señal de observabilidad
- Diseñar convenciones semánticas para telemetría de carbono
- Trade-offs entre métricas, trazas y atributos de recursos
- Patrones de implementación prácticos usando OpenTelemetry
- Direcciones futuras para la observabilidad verde
🗣️ Sobre Diana Todea: CNCF Ambassador y líder del TAG de Resiliencia Operacional, co-lidera la comunidad Neurodiversity Merge Forward y organiza Cloud Native Days Romania. Profesionalmente, es Head of Developer Relations Engineering en VictoriaMetrics, donde trabaja en la intersección de experiencia de desarrollador, observabilidad y comunidad open source. Con experiencia como Senior Site Reliability Engineer especializada en Observabilidad, Diana es una apasionada del ecosistema Cloud Native y la sostenibilidad en la ingeniería de software. 🇷🇴
Cloud Native CDMX sigue creciendo con la misión de construir una comunidad técnica sólida, inclusiva y apasionada por el ecosistema Cloud Native en México.
¡Sé parte de la comunidad! 🙌
#CloudNativeCDMX #CloudNative #CloudNativeMexico #CNCF #CNCFCommunity #CNCFAmbassador #CommunityMeetup #TechCommunity #TechCDMX #OpenTelemetry #Observability #GreenSoftware #SCI #SoftwareCarbonIntensity #Sustainability #CloudNativeLatam #GreenObservability #Telemetry #SemanticConventions #VictoriaMetrics
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
Carbon as a First-Class Signal: Designing a Standard for OpenTelemetry
virtual🎤 Carbon as a First-Class Signal: Designing a Standard for OpenTelemetry by Diana Todea
OpenTelemetry helps us measure latency, errors, and availability. But as sustainability moves into engineering, one question remains unanswered: how do we observe carbon?
This talk explores Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) through the lens of OpenTelemetry semantic conventions. Rather than focusing on sustainability reporting, we examine the technical challenge of modeling carbon as telemetry: what entities should emissions be attributed to, which attributes should be standardized, and whether carbon belongs in metrics, traces, resource metadata, or all three.
We will explore how carbon-related signals can be collected, enriched, and visualized alongside traditional observability data. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of semantic conventions, telemetry design trade-offs, and the opportunities for OpenTelemetry to support a new generation of operational signals.
Key takeaways:
- Understanding SCI as an observability signal
- Designing semantic conventions for carbon telemetry
- Trade-offs between metrics, traces, and resource attributes
- Practical implementation patterns using OpenTelemetry
- Future directions for green observability
🗣️ About Diana Todea: CNCF Ambassador and Operational Resilience TAG lead, co-leads the Neurodiversity Merge Forward community, and organizes Cloud Native Days Romania. Professionally, she is the Head of Developer Relations Engineering at VictoriaMetrics, where she works at the intersection of developer experience, observability, and open source community engagement. With experience as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer specialized in Observability, Diana is passionate about the Cloud Native ecosystem and sustainability in software engineering. 🇷🇴
Cloud Native CDMX continues to grow with the mission of building a strong, inclusive, and passionate technical community around the Cloud Native ecosystem in Mexico.
Be part of the community! 🙌
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