Operating OpenTelemetry at Scale with OpAMP - OpenObservability Talks S6E09

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of managing OpenTelemetry at scale and how OpAMP facilitates this process.

As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises: how to remotely manage, configure, and update this agent fleet in a consistent and secure way? This is where Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) comes into the picture: it provides a standardized protocol that lets a central backend automatically configure agents, push updates, monitor their health, and collect status information. In this episode Horovits hosts Andy Keller, OpAMP Maintainer and Principal Engineer at Bindplane, to discuss how OpAMP makes large-scale observability deployments much easier to operate and control. Andy shares the project status, including hot KubeCon update you don’t want to miss. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/737b6af8222b/ Show Notes: 00:00 - intro 02:01 - why OpAMP mission statement 04:29 - types of OpenTelemetry Collector fleet deployments 06:49 - from configuration management to observability 10:23 - OpAMP for Kubernetes 15:58 - OpAMP protocol and components 26:54 - OpAMP for remote management of OTel Java SDK and other agents 33:38 - server implementations for OpAMP…

People in this episode

Host: Dotan Horovits

Guest: Andy Keller

Topics covered

• OpenTelemetry
• OpAMP
• observability
• remote management
• Kubernetes
• agent fleet

Keywords

• OpenTelemetry
• OpAMP
• observability
• Kubernetes
• agent management
• configuration
• updates

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bindplane, OpenTelemetry, OpAMP, KubeCon

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