February 2026 the OpenTelemetry community gathered at OTel Unplugged event in Brussels. It was the first time this unconference was held in Europe, bringing together maintainers, contributors, governance committee members, and end usersIn this episode our host Dotan Horovits and guest Juraci Paixão Kröhling will discuss their insights from the event about the current state of the project, roadmap, challenges, community and more.
Juraci is a software engineer, a Governance Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and an emeritus maintainer of the Jaeger project, and the co-founder of OllyGarden, an OpenTelemetry-based startup.
You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/e00f219f7460/
Show Notes:
00:00 - intro
01:39 - OTel Unplugged background
06:60 - stabilization and graduation
21:49 - OTel blueprints
26:24 - OTel collectors tied to vendors
30:14 - bad telemetry
32:40 - OpenTelemetry-Prometheus compatibility
39:49 - OpenTelemetry Injector
43:07 - OpenTelemetry Weaver
45:33 - Instrumentation Score
51:15 - mobile and browser observability
52:23 - YAML configuration for SDK
55:19 - additional events for OTel community
58:00 - Jaeger v2.15.0 release
1:00:18 - outro
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Dotan Horovits
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Juraci Paixão Kröhling
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpkroehling/
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