Monthly Discussion Group

Interested in learning how other end users are implementing OpenTelemetry in their organizations? Come talk shop with other OpenTelemetry end users! This is a vendor-neutral space to discuss best practices, ask questions, and meet other observability-minded folks.

Feedback that is shared and collected in these sessions will be routed back to the relevant project maintainers to help drive prioritization of improvements and changes to the project.

About

• Sessions are available for all regions!
• Search the blog for “End-User Discussions” to find summaries of past discussions.
• A project maintainer and/or a Governance Committee member will be in attendance at each session to provide additional context, insight, and plans to user questions and feedback.
• Sessions are recorded.

Upcoming sessions

Here are upcoming sessions, or you can view them on the OpenTelemetry calendar:

• EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa): every third Tuesday of the month at 11AM GMT (Zoom link)
  • February 20
  • March 19
  • April 16
• APAC (Asia Pacific): every third Wednesday of the month at 11AM India ST (GMT +5.5), register to get the Zoom link
  • February 21
  • March 20
  • April 17
• AMER (Americas): every third Thursday of the month at 9AM PT (GMT -8), (Zoom link)
  • February 15
  • March 21
  • April 18

Past topics/questions have included:

• Best practices on monitoring collectors in production
• Using OTel in CI/CD pipelines
• What’s holding you back from adopting more OpenTelemetry?
• Auto vs manual instrumentation use cases
• How to secure a publicly exposed OTel Collector?

We use a Lean Coffee format where discussion topics are generated and democratically selected by the group at the start of the meeting. Topics are rigorously time-boxed by a facilitator.