KCDC 2026: Beyond the Blind Spot: Mastering App Visibility with OpenTelemetry

Modern applications span multiple clouds and technology stacks, yet achieving consistent visibility often means locking into a single vendor’s monitoring solution. OpenTelemetry is an open-source standard for collecting metrics, logs, and traces and routing that data to the tools of your choice — eliminating vendor lock-in for application observability. This session covers the core concepts of logs, traces, and metrics, then takes a deep dive into the OpenTelemetry collector and how its pipelines function. Using hands-on examples, Principal Engineer Josh Angolano sets up both .NET and JVM-based applications deployed to Azure and AWS, feeds their telemetry data into an OpenTelemetry collector, and builds a Grafana dashboard to display and analyze the results. Attendees will leave with a solid understanding of OpenTelemetry and a clear path to adding real-time visibility and monitoring to their own applications.

This talk will be given at KCDC by Principal Engineer Josh Angolano of Lean TECHniques. To learn more click here.