Observable by Design: Building Cloud-Native Applications with OpenTelemetry

Learn how to instrument your cloud-native applications with OpenTelemetry to gain visibility, debug faster, and avoid vendor lock-in.

Modern applications are distributed across many services and environments. This makes them harder to understand and debug. You need to see what's happening inside your application to fix problems quickly. OpenTelemetry is a free, open standard tool that helps you collect this information. In this talk, we'll explore what observability means, why it matters for cloud-native apps, and how OpenTelemetry makes it easy to instrument your code.

We'll show you practical examples of how to add observability to your applications. You'll learn how to track requests across services, find performance problems, and catch errors early. By instrumenting your apps with OpenTelemetry, you avoid being locked into one vendor's tools. You'll be able to move your data wherever you want. By the end of this session, you'll know how to build applications that are easy to understand and maintain.