Splunk is excited to attend the premier cloud-native conference of the year: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023! OpenTelemetry is essential to Splunk’s Observability products and we are investing more in it every year. This year, we’re also sponsoring an interactive lounge for the OpenTelemetry community, in addition to having 2 speaking sessions, several OpenTelemetry maintainers in attendance, and so much more. If you’re an Observability user or developing cloud-native applications, you need to join us!

Morgan McLean
Director of Product Management, Splunk

OpenTelemetry: What's Next?

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 11:00 AM

This is the official OpenTelemetry session at Kubecon. OpenTelemetry started with distributed traces and metrics, but the project's vision has always been to provide whatever signals are needed from infrastructure, services, and more. This session will focus on what's coming next, including new signals and sources. Join to learn about OpenTelemetry's new logging functionality, including its two logging paths, the benefits of each, and real-world production examples. We'll show the power of the next wave of OpenTelemetry enhancements, including profiling and the insights that this unlocks in combination with distributed traces, and how we're extending your observability to client applications. We'll wrap up with a Q&A of 10+ project maintainers, who can speak to these topics and more.

Morgan McLean
Director of Product Management, Splunk

Introducing Logs in OpenTelemetry 

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 2:30 PM

Logs have just become a first-class signal in OpenTelemetry, meaning that the Collector and APIs / SDKs can capture, decorate, pre-process, and export logs alongside metrics and traces to any backend for storage and analytics. These capabilities offer substantial benefits and are now ready for production usage, and it’s the best possible time to get started. In this session, you will learn from two people who initiated and defined much of OpenTelemetry’s logging capabilities: - Why logging in OpenTelemetry matters and why we added it - How logs benefit from OpenTelemetry’s consistent and enforced semantic conventions - A live demonstration of the two paths for capturing logs in OpenTelemetry: capturing logs in-process, and from existing file sources - A live demonstration of pre-processing logs in the Collector, showing the power of cross-signal processing with features like trace-based log sampling - Real-world examples from end-user firms already relying on this in production

Aunsh Chaudhari
Senior Product Manager, Splunk

Monitoring GKE Autopilot with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 1:00 PM

Hundreds of thousands of organizations rely on Kubernetes to power and manage their mission critical services every day. Managing a large service deployment requires the developers and operators who work on it to have excellent observability into the system. 

Would you like to monitor your services across your GKE cluster to better understand health and performance? Have you been struggling to manage the scale of your cluster and want to also reduce the time taken for troubleshooting across all your deployments? Look no further, we’ve got you covered! 

In this session, you will learn how easy it is to get started with the OpenTelemetry Collector to capture metrics, traces and logs from your GKE autopilot deployments. You will also learn about the performance benefits of using OpenTelemetry compliant logging, its future and how you can use Splunk’s unified Observability platform to gain comprehensive visibility to your infrastructure, helping you detect and diagnose issues quickly, leading to faster problem resolution.

Walking Directions [Conventions Center to Row 24] 

• Leave the convention through Gate 40 (the ride share exit)
• Immediately turn left.
• Go to the end of the block and turn right onto 24th street.
• Turn left at the next intersection (Michigan).
• The venue (Row 24) will be on the left. 

Take a moment to come relax in the community lounge to meet up with users and contributors to the OpenTelemtry project. Our space will have comfortable seating, power, and opportunities to connect and share knowledge in an open and inclusive environment.

Collaborative Conversations 

Tuesday, November 7th 

Wednesday, November 8th 

Thursday, November 9th 

• Blog: Data Ownership with OpenTelemetry 
• Children's Book: Amir and the Magical Lens (an Intro to OpenTelemetry)
• Game: PipeStorm (an interactive OpenTelemetry game)
• Guide: The (award-winning) Beginner’s Guide to Observability
• Guide: The Essential Guide to Observability for Cloud Native Environments