Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2024

The OpenTelemetry project maintainers, members of the governance committee, and technical committee are thrilled to be at KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City from November 12 - 15, 2024.

Read on to learn about all the things related OpenTelemetry during KubeCon.

OpenTelemetry Contribfest

Join the OpenTelemetry maintainers for the OpenTelemetry Contribfest to make the project better for everyone. You can choose between several opportunities to contribute, and you can count on maintainers from different project areas to help you on your first steps: documentation, Collector, Java, JS, Ruby, Python, .NET, and more.

KubeCon Talks and Maintainer Sessions

Observability Day

Observability Day fosters collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing of cloud-native observability projects. This event will be held on November 12, 2024 from 9am to 6pm. Check the full schedule to find your favorite talks about Observability and OpenTelemetry.

IMPORTANT access note: You need an in-person all-access pass for on-site access to Observability Day. For details, see KubeCon registration. If you have a virtual ticket, you will be able to follow Observability Day through a live stream.

OpenTelemetry Observatory

Drop by and say “Hi!” at OpenTelemetry Observatory presented by Splunk in the Expo Hall. This will be a place for informal chats, meetups, and other discussions led by OpenTelemetry community members and maintainers.

Note, that the Observatory may show up as “Splunk Activation Booth” on the event map.

For the activity schedule, see the OTel Observatory Schedule. Note that this schedule may be updated up until the day of the event, so check back for the latest!

New for this year!

  • SIG Office Hours: Come meet the people behind the project, learn about their work, ask questions, share feedback, or find out how to contribute.
  • Special Topic Discussions: Come learn about two of the hottest OTEPs right now, Events and Entities!

If you’d like to participate by leading a discussion, or if there is a discussion topic you’re interested in, please reach out to the OpenTelemetry End User SIG to let us know, and we will see what we can do.

You can help us improve the project by sharing your thoughts and feedback about your OpenTelemetry adoption, implementation, and usage.

We will create action items from your comments as appropriate. Check #otel-sig-end-user in CNCF’s Slack instance for results and action item updates to come after KubeCon EU.

Come join us to listen, learn, and get involved in OpenTelemetry.

See you in Salt Lake City!