So you think you're ready for OpenTelemetry?

This talk is for platform engineers responsible for rolling out OpenTelemetry across real environments, not demo apps. Eden Federman, an OpenTelemetry maintainer and the contributor who donated the Go eBPF auto-instrumentation to CNCF, breaks down the problems that keep showing up every time a large organization tries to adopt OTel in production.

Topics covered:
• The migration trap: running OTel alongside existing agents (Datadog, AppDynamics) and the cost of split telemetry
• The support vacuum: who picks up the phone at 2 AM when OTel breaks production?
• Language and version gaps: what happens to the thousands of services running Java 7, older .NET, and legacy Python
• The org chart problem: why OTel rollouts become multi-year programs at Fortune 500 scale

Each challenge is drawn from real enterprise deployments. The talk closes with concrete patterns that de-risk adoption and a framework for making tooling choices when standardizing on OTel.