Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, is a trailblazer in the observability realm. In this engaging discussion, she reflects on pivotal trends shaping observability this year and the transformative role of OpenTelemetry. The challenges and opportunities of integrating AI in observability are examined, debunking misconceptions along the way. Charity also highlights the evolution towards open-source solutions, and offers insight on managing observability costs in high-traffic environments. Looking ahead, she shares what to expect in 2025.

Catch up on everything you missed at KubeCon North America 2024! Join us for a special recap that brings you closer to the action. This is a special episode in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the foundation behind KubeCon+CloudNativeCon and the cloud-native projects. Dotan Horovits, our host and a CNCF Ambassador, will be joined by an all-star panel of cloud-native experts—CNCF Ambassadors Viktor Farcic and Max Körbächer—each bringing their unique insights and takeaways from the conference. Together, they unpack the major project announcements and key themes from this year’s event: the standout talks, co-located events, maintainer meetings and those memorable hallway conversations. Get insights from the experts who know the cloud-native space inside out. Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox. Max is Co-Founder at Liquid Reply. He is Co-Chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group and served 3 years at the Kubernetes release team. He runs the Munich Kubernetes Meetup as well as the Munich and Ukraine Kubernetes Community Days. Dotan Horovits is a DevOps specialist with special focus on observability solutions and related open source projects such as OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus and OpenSearch. He runs the OpenObservability Talks podcast, now in its 5th year. Don't miss this expert-led KubeCon recap, in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s official channel! The episode was live-streamed on 19 November 2024 in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TrPev5IzB8 You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/@horovits/1362959030c1 OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠   https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠ Show Notes: 00:00 - episode and speaker intro 02:45 - KubeCon Salt Lake City stats and trends 05:26 - The cloud-native stack is maturing up 08:12 - KubeCon’s role in the cloud-native space 11:23 - Platform Engineering trend 14:07 - Open specifications and Kubernetes API 18:44 - Flatcar joins the CNCF with container focused OS 24:54 - wasmCloud moves to CNCF incubation and WASMCon highlights 31:49 - CNCF Ambassador program and recent Community Awards 35:24 - KubeCon event plan and expansion, and local KCDs 43:34 - Environmental Sustainability TAG 47:46 - Dapr and cert-manager reached CNCF graduation 51:11 - Cloud Native Reference Architectures 54:39 - observability updates for Jaeger, Prometheus and more 58:53 - episode outro Resources: CNCF community awards: https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2024/11/14/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-the-2024-community-awards-winners/ Dapr graduation: https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2024/11/12/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-dapr-graduation/ wasmCloud moves to incubation: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/11/12/cncf-welcomes-wasmcloud-to-the-cncf-incubator/ More on wasmCloud: https://medium.com/p/02a5025c6115 OpenTelemetry expands into CI/CD observability https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7259200802689273856 Jaeger v2 unveiled https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774 Prometheus 3.0 unveiled https://medium.com/p/1c5edca32c87 Flatcar joins the CNCF https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7257278073824288768/ OpenCost matured into incubation https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7257826394179522562 New Cloud Native Reference Architecture hub: https://architecture.cncf.io/ CNCF upcoming events: https://www.cncf.io/events/ Kubernetes Community Days events around the world https://www.cncf.io/kcds/ Socials: Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Viktor Farcic =========== Twitter: https://twitter.com/vfarcic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktorfarcic BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/vfarcic.bsky.social Max Körbächer ============= Twitter: https://twitter.com/mkoerbi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkoerbaecher BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mkoerbi.bsky.social Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@mkorbi@mastodon.social

Yuri Shkuro, observability engineer at Meta and creator of Jaeger, dives into the groundbreaking Jaeger V2 release, emphasizing its deep integration with OpenTelemetry. He discusses the architectural advancements and enhanced user interface, making tracing more efficient. Yuri highlights future UI enhancements and community mentorship's role in Jaeger's growth. Additionally, he touches on the complexities of observability in machine learning, showcasing how OpenTelemetry addresses these challenges.

PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, is back in Berlin, and we’re here to bring you the highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem. And this year we’ve got some major news: Prometheus’s long-awaited major release, v3.0!  Join us to hear all about the revamped user interface, about Remote Write 2.0, and about Prometheus’ goal to become the default backend for storing OpenTelemetry metrics, featuring native OTel support, and much more. We’ll cover these and more highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem. Our guest is no other than Julius Volz, creator of Prometheus, and founder of the PromCon conference. Julius created the Prometheus monitoring at SoundCloud and led the project through open source and beyond. He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community, and helps companies use and adapt Prometheus through his company PromLabs. Before that, Julius was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, where he gained experience monitoring at hyperscale. The episode was live-streamed on 4 September 2024 and the video is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUCU-78RD4 Check out the episode recap: https://medium.com/p/1c5edca32c87/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠   https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠ Show Notes: 00:00 - episode and guest intro 01:56 - Prometheus origins 07:23 - Kubernetes synergy 09:34 - Origins of PromCon and this year’s event 11:44 - The idea for Prometheus 3.0 13:26 - new UI for Prometheus 20:42 - Beyond Prometheus UI into the broader UI/UX vision 23:07 - OpenTelemetry support and compatibility 37:26 - Native histograms 43:14 - Remote Write 2.0 46:53 - New governance model 48:49 - OpenMetrics is archived, merged into Prometheus 53:34 - Perses joins the CNCF sandbox 57:15 - The landscape of long-term storage for Prometheus 59:13 - Updates in Thanos project 01:00:34 - the growth of Prometheus-semi-compatible solutions 01:04:09 - Kubernets 1.31 is released Resources: PromCon recap: https://medium.com/p/1c5edca32c87/ PromCon: https://promcon.io/2024-berlin/ Prometheus now supports OpenTelemetry: https://horovits.medium.com/83f85878e46a OpenMetrics archived, merged into Prometheus: https://horovits.medium.com/d555598d2d04 Prometheus 3.0-Beta release: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.0 Prometheus 3.0-Beta release blog: https://prometheus.io/blog/2024/09/11/prometheus-3-beta/ Perses project introduction: https://horovits.medium.com/f05b5324d7da Last roundup of Prometheus updates: https://horovits.medium.com/fbede9b5cc9 Last PromCon (2023) recap: https://logz.io/blog/promcon-prometheus-ecosystem-updates/ Socials: Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon Julius Volz ========= Twitter: https://twitter.com/juliusvolz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julius-volz/ Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@juliusvolz

In this lively discussion, Radek Vokál, a Senior Manager at Red Hat with 20 years of experience, shares his insights into OpenShift's evolution and its vibrant community. He covers the integration of observability within OpenShift, highlighting strategies for effective monitoring and troubleshooting. Radek discusses the balance between community demands and commercial goals in open source, while also addressing critical cloud security issues. Exciting advancements like Jaeger version two and the role of collaborative development in observability are central themes.

Discover the transformative power of WebAssembly in cloud-native applications, with insights on performance, portability, and security. Explore the evolution of containers and Kubernetes, benefits of WebAssembly's flexibility, and its practical use cases in platform engineering and IoT devices. Learn about advancements in observability with OpenTelemetry support, community contributions in maintaining Wasm Cloud, and the project roadmap for future developments.

Redis was relicensed, leading to Valkey fork under Linux Foundation. Valkey gained momentum with major industry support. Kyle Davis, Senior Dev Advocate at AWS, discussed Valkey's foundation and community building. Valkey's compatibility, roadmap, and Contributor Summit were highlighted. Valkey aims to maintain Redis compatibility and support the open-source community.

Explore the shifts in open source with Redis relicensing, community splits, and the rise of new projects like OpenSearch. Delve into the challenges of open source licensing and business models, the concept of forking in projects, and the crucial role of foundations. Learn about the impact on the FOSS movement and the future of open source.

Explore KubeCon Paris highlights with CNCF Ambassadors, delve into the AI behind K8sGPT, a project giving Kubernetes superpowers. Thomas Schuetz shares insights on cloud-native technologies. Discover open-source projects for efficiency, AI troubleshooting in Kubernetes, and engaging with adopters at KubeCon.

Discover the revolutionary addition of Continuous Profiling to OpenTelemetry, enhancing application behavior understanding and performance optimization. Hear from experts on the Profiling SIG, the standardization of profiling data, and the evolution of profiling in software development. Explore the process of merging COTEP 239 into the Signal group and community feedback on profiling formats within OpenTelemetry. Engage with ongoing conversations and upcoming events for insights into the importance of profiling in observability.