OpenObservability Talks Operating OpenTelemetry at Scale with OpAMP - OpenObservability Talks S6E09
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
36:33 - adopter vendors and end-users
39:14 - project maturity
42:59 - protocol vs. product
47:55 - OpAMP Gateway launch
51:10 - Scale of OTel Collector deployments
54:56 - OpAMP roadmap
59:12 - where to follow the project and Andy
1:02:34 - outro
Resources:
OpAMP specification: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/opamp/
OpAMP for OpenTelemetry Collector: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/cmd/opampsupervisor/specification/README.md
- Nike talk at KubeCon on using OpAMP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J68ThM9DqQ0
- OpAMP Gateway Extension - launch blog: https://bindplane.com/blog/opamp-for-opentelemetry-managing-collector-fleets-and-introducing-the-new-opamp-gateway-extension
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