Zero-code tracing: Kubernetes-native observability without touching your app

Instrumenting applications for observability should not require developers to touch their code, and managing that instrumentation should not require SREs to leave their GitOps workflow. In this live demo, Mike Dame walks through how Odigos brings observability into the Kubernetes platform layer using eBPF and OpenTelemetry, from first trace to production-ready GitOps pipelines.

The session includes a full walkthrough of deploying Odigos on a sample application, generating distributed traces with zero code changes, and simulating an error to show how those traces surface real problems. It also examines platform engineering workflows for modifying telemetry with Actions and Instrumentation Rules, managing instrumentation as code, configuring destinations with authentication, and using Kubernetes RBAC for self-service observability.