About this episode

This episode discusses the OpenTelemetry Blueprints initiative and practical deployments for Kubernetes and Platform Engineering.

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is now the industry standard for observability — but deploying it successfully at scale is still a major challenge. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we dive into the newly launched OpenTelemetry Blueprints initiative: a set of practical reference architectures designed to help Platform Engineering and SRE teams cut through the complexity. We explore the first official blueprints for Kubernetes and traditional infrastructure environments, covering: ✅ How to standardize OTel Collector deployments ✅ Best practices for instrumentation at scale ✅ Building self-service observability platforms ✅ What these blueprints mean for Platform Engineering and SRE teams Whether you're just starting your OpenTelemetry journey or trying to scale it across a large organization, this episode gives you a concrete, actionable framework to move faster and with more confidence. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/67db96d7e512/ 🔔 Subscribe for monthly conversations on open-source observability, OTel, open source and cloud-native monitoring. Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 03:05 - end-user pains with OpenTelemetry adoption 07:49 - enterprise org structure dictates…

People in this episode

Host: Dotan Horovits

Topics covered

• OpenTelemetry
• observability
• Kubernetes
• Platform Engineering
• SRE
• reference architectures

Keywords

• OpenTelemetry
• Kubernetes
• observability
• Platform Engineering
• SRE
• blueprints
• instrumentation
• self-service observability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, SRE

Places: traditional infrastructure environments

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