Getting started with OpenTelemetry: Planning and tips for observability teams

Miguel Luna

Principal Product Manager

Elastic

David Hope

Principal Product Marketing Director at Elastic

Elastic

Ready to dive into OpenTelemetry (OTel) for your organization? Putting together a plan for implementing OTel can be a challenge, but the experts at Elastic are here to help! Join Miguel Luna and David Hope as they guide you through the planning and preparation required to get started with OTel.

Highlights

• Key benefits of OpenTelemetry and why it's impacting the observability industry
• Migration paths and how to implement OpenTelemetry for metrics, logs, and traces
• Important steps and milestones in an OTel deployment

Additional resources

• SRE manager's guide to OpenTelemetry
• Taking Observability to the Next Level: OpenTelemetry's Emerging Role in IT Performance and Reliability, EMA report
• Realizing the business value of OpenTelemetry-native observability blog