Paschalis Tsilias, a software engineer from Grafana, discusses the rising influence of OpenTelemetry in observability. He dives deep into Grafana Alloy, highlighting its modular design and integration capabilities, especially for Kubernetes users. The conversation tackles the dual nature of observability—immediate fault identification versus insights generation. Paschalis also shares the struggle of creating custom programming languages for telemetry, and gives a sneak peek into new tools expected at ObservabilityCon.