Join us for OpenTelemetry Talks and Activities at KubeCon NA 2026
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 9 - 12, 2026. Register today to join us!
Read on to learn about all the events related to 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. The Contribfest takes place on Tuesday, November 10 • 11:30 - 12:50.
KubeCon Talks and Maintainer Sessions
- ⚡ Project Lightning Talk: Fluent Bit: The Evolution of High-Performance Telemetry Pipelines
by Eduardo Silva, Palo Alto Networks
Monday, November 9 • 10:41 - 10:46 - Your Agent Needs a Platform: Cloud Native Infrastructure for Multi-Agent AI Systems
by Soham Ghadge, GenbaNEXT
Tuesday, November 10 • 11:30 - 12:00 - Next Generation DevOps: Reshaping the Cloud Native DevOps Infinity Loop with AI
by Rey Lejano, Red Hat
Tuesday, November 10 • 11:30 - 12:00 - Demo Theater: All the Ways to Add OpenTelemetry Without Touching Your Code
by Michele Mancioppi, Dash0
Tuesday, November 10 • 12:30 - 12:50 - Demo Theater: Agent Observability: Evaluating and Guardrailing Responses in Real Time
by Greg Leffler, Splunk
Tuesday, November 10 • 12:55 - 13:15 - Tracing at Scale: Running a 16 Billion Spans/Hour Pipeline at Nubank
by Felipe Araujo & Kaynan Coelho, Nubank
Tuesday, November 10 • 14:50 - 15:20 - From Bytes to Traces: A Deep Dive into OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation Internals
by Rafael Roquetto, Isovalent @ Cisco; Mike Dame, Odigos
Tuesday, November 10 • 14:50 - 15:20 - The Prompt Layer: What Platform Engineering Has to Own Next
by Atulpriya Sharma, Improving
Tuesday, November 10 • 14:50 - 15:20 - Just Keep Swimming: Benchmarking OSS Agent Memory on Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry
by Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
Tuesday, November 10 • 15:40 - 16:10 - The SRE Is Not Dead: What AI Taught Us about Missing Context in Kubernetes Incident Response
by Muhammed Yunas Chirayath, Best Buy; Ajmal Ali kannu, Independent
Tuesday, November 10 • 15:40 - 16:10 - From Traceroute to OTel Traces: Modeling Network Paths with OpenTelemetry
by Antonio Jimenez Martinez, Cisco ThousandEyes
Tuesday, November 10 • 15:40 - 16:10 - Agents on the Platform: Four Perspectives on the Conversation We’re Already Having in Private
by Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0; Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden; Joseph Sandoval, Adobe; Jed Salazar, Edera; Alexa Griffith, Red Hat
Tuesday, November 10 • 16:40 - 17:10 - Not All Memory Is Equal: How To Properly Observe Memory Usage
by Braydon Kains, Google; Roger Coll, Grafana Labs
Tuesday, November 10 • 16:40 - 17:10 - Two-Stage OTel Aggregation: Taming Istio Cardinality at 10k-Pod Scale
by Evelyn (Chungyu) Chen, Yahoo
Tuesday, November 10 • 17:30 - 18:00 - Verticalizing Platform Intelligence for Regulated Domains
by William Rizzo, Mirantis; Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0
Wednesday, November 11 • 11:00 - 11:30 - OTel Blueprints: Prescriptive Patterns for Enterprise Observability
by Dan Gomez Blanco, New Relic; Lukasz Ciukaj, Cisco Splunk
Wednesday, November 11 • 11:00 - 11:30 - Filter, Transform, Route: Mastering OTTL in the OpenTelemetry Collector
by Evan Bradley, Dynatrace; Edmo Vamerlatti Costa, Elastic; Jamie Danielson, honeycomb.io; Tyler Helmuth, Grafana Labs
Wednesday, November 11 • 11:00 - 12:20 - Sample Smarter, Not Harder (Or Not At All!)
by Reese Lee, New Relic; Juliano Costa, Datadog
Wednesday, November 11 • 11:50 - 12:20 - Demo Theater: ClickHouse Observability: Full-fidelity observability for AI agents and SREs
by Mike Shi, ClickHouse
Wednesday, November 11 • 12:15 - 12:35 - 🪧 Poster Session: Many Agents, One Platform: Production Multi-Agent Apps on K8s with CNCF Building Blocks
by Daniel Oh, Red Hat
Wednesday, November 11 • 13:20 - 14:20 - 🪧 Poster Session: Your GPU Dashboard Is Lying: Per-Tenant Blind Spots in MIG, MPS, and HAMi
by Saiyam Pathak, vCluster; Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify
Wednesday, November 11 • 13:20 - 14:20 - GPU Observability with eBPF: From Kernel Hooks to Kubernetes Metrics
by Qasim Sarfraz & Michael Friese, Microsoft
Wednesday, November 11 • 15:10 - 15:40 - Battle-tested Autoscaling Paradigms with KEDA
by Jan Wozniak, Kedify; Christian Melendez, AWS
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:10 - 16:40 - Zero-Trust Telemetry: Stopping AI-Powered Poisoning Attacks on Observability Pipelines
by Chad M. Crowell, Akamai; Diana Todea, VictoriaMetrics
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:10 - 16:40 - OpenTelemetry in Your Pocket
by Jason Plumb, Splunk
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:10 - 16:40 - Exploring Telemetry Quality
by Jacob Aronoff, Tero
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:10 - 16:40 - Demo Theater: Day 2 for Stateful Kubernetes: Data Services You Can See
by Brock Mowry & Tapas Mahanata, Tintri
Wednesday, November 11 • 16:25 - 16:45 - Composing Inference on Kubernetes: Gateway, Schedule, Serve, Observe
by Karena Angell, Red Hat; Alex Chircop, Google
Wednesday, November 11 • 17:00 - 17:30 - Beyond Dashboards: A Semantic Layer for AI-Driven Observability in Kubernetes
by Pronnoy Goswami, NVIDIA
Thursday, November 12 • 11:00 - 11:30 - Demo Theater: HTTP 200, Tool Failed: Taming MCP Agent Traffic with NGINX
by Ciara Stacke & Micheal Kingston, F5
Thursday, November 12 • 11:25 - 11:45 - Hope Is Not a Rollout Strategy: Balancing (AI) Quality, Cost, and Risk Through Experimentation
by Todd Baert, Dynatrace
Thursday, November 12 • 11:50 - 12:20 - Seeing Inside LLM Inference: Observability and Cost Visibility for llm-d on Kubernetes
by Nili Guy, IBM; Guangya Liu, JPMorgan Chase
Thursday, November 12 • 11:55 - 12:10 - The Race to Standardize AI Observability
by Liudmila Molkova, Google; Trask Stalnaker, Microsoft
Thursday, November 12 • 13:50 - 14:20 - From Black-Box to Auditable AI-Grid: A Deterministic Governance Layer with Hybrid Cloud
by Fatih E. Nar, Red Hat; Andrew Hendrickson, FCC
Thursday, November 12 • 14:40 - 15:10 - Fast and Furious: OTel Drift
by Laura Luttmer, Bindplane
Thursday, November 12 • 15:30 - 16:00 - OpenFeature as a Control Plane for OpenTelemetry
by Simon Schrottner, Flagsmith; Juliano Costa, Datadog
Thursday, November 12 • 15:30 - 16:00
Maintainer Summit
Held on November 8, one day prior to the co-located events and two days prior to the conference, the Maintainer Summit is an exclusive opportunity for the people behind the project to gather face-to-face. Members of the OpenTelemetry organization will come together to collaborate, learn, share ideas, solve problems, and enrich their projects. See the full schedule for all the details. Sign up today!
You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon to access the Maintainer Summit. You also must be a member of a CNCF incubating project, such as OpenTelemetry. Maintainer Summit requires a separate registration. For eligibility requirements and to register, see Maintainer Summit.
Observability Day
Observability Day fosters collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing with a focus on cloud native observability projects. This event will be held on November 9, 2026, from 9:00 to 17:30. Look for your favorite talks about observability and OpenTelemetry in the schedule.
You need an all-access pass to attend Observability Day. For details, see KubeCon registration.
OpenTelemetry at the Project Pavilion
Come meet the OpenTelemetry community at the Project Pavilion on Thursday, November 12, from 10:00 to 14:00! Stop by for an informal chat, ask questions, share your experiences, or find out how to get involved in the project.
OpenTelemetry Community Awards
OpenTelemetry is a community-driven project, fueled by a group of awesome humans who are actively revolutionizing the field of observability with their contributions. Whether it’s through code, documentation, project management, outreach, adoption, or simply helping others, we want to recognize these contributions and the people behind them.
Nominations for this year’s awards are open now, and we’ll announce the winners during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America!
Come join us to listen, learn, and get involved in OpenTelemetry.
See you in Salt Lake City!