Opentelemetry: case studies over time¶

14 case studies across 9 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "opentelemetry"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: A. Grabner, Bloomberg, Heroku, Honeycomb, Honeycomb.io, OpenTelemetry Network, Salesforce, Shopify, Splunk

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual¶

Migrating to OpenTelemetry From a Custom Distributed Tracing Pipeline - Francis Bogsanyi, Shopify — Shopify¶

Shopify describes migrating from a custom distributed tracing pipeline to OpenTelemetry.

Observability at Scale: Running OpenTelemetry Across an Enterprise - Jonah Back & Kranti Vikram ¶

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023¶

Journey to Becoming an OpenTelemetry Approver - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb.io — Honeycomb.io¶

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024¶

From RUM to Front-End Observability with OpenTelemetry - Purvi Kanal, Honeycomb — Honeycomb¶

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024¶

From Three Pillars to More with OpenTelemetry - Steve Flanders, Splunk — Splunk¶

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City¶

Lessons Learned Adopting OpenTelemetry at Scale - Alex Arnell, Heroku / Salesforce — Heroku, Salesforce¶

Heroku/Salesforce shares lessons learned adopting OpenTelemetry at scale.

Understanding How OpenTelemetry Network Uses eBPF for Network Observab... S.R. Shrivastava, J. Perry — OpenTelemetry Network¶

How We Made OpenTelemetry Be Our Fitness Tracker for Your CI/CD Pipelines! - N. Woerner, A. Grabner — A. Grabner¶

OpenTelemetry: The OpenTelemetry Hero’s Journey: Working with Open Source Observability | PLT ¶

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London¶

How To Adopt OpenTelemetry in an Enterprise Where Incumbent Vendor Tools Reign Supre... Chris Weldon ¶

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025¶

Building Scalable End-to-end Latency Metrics From Distributed Trace - Kusha Maharshi, Bloomberg — Bloomberg¶

Bloomberg describes building scalable end-to-end latency metrics from distributed traces.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026¶

How Manual OTel Instrumentation Saves More Than Just Money - Juliano Costa & Yuri Oliveira ¶

Argues that manual OTel instrumentation reduces observability cost and more, based on the speakers' own experience.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026¶

Repurposing OpenTelemetry Traces as Test Data: Breaking the Cost Barrier in System… Y. Fujikane ¶

Describes reusing OpenTelemetry traces as test data to lower the cost of system testing.