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Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: Observability Best Practices

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You might have heard of OpenTelemetry, and you may even use some of its components in your production systems. But does it provide any tangible benefits?

In this session, we’ll discuss OpenTelemetry, who’s behind it, what it actually contains and the immediate benefits for Splunk customers and anyone who builds and manages production services. You’ll learn how OpenTelemetry powers new functionality in Splunk Observability Cloud, the integrations and flexibility that it unlocks and how it brings together experiences across the entire Splunk product line.

In this interactive session, we will cover:

  • An overview of the OpenTelemetry OTel Collector architecture
  • The benefits of OTel for increasing visibility in your applications
  • How Splunk is supporting and integrating with OpenTelemetry
  • How to build an OpenTelemetry pipeline

Join this webinar to start the journey to enhanced visibility for your observability practice and expand your knowledge by playing the PipeStorm Observability game.

Morgan McLean
Director of Product Management - Splunk
Morgan is one of the co-founders of OpenTelemetry, W3C Trace Context and OpenCensus, He has spent his career building high-scale web services and the tools required to maintain them. Morgan is currently the director of product management for Splunk Observability Cloud’s core platform, including the high-level user experience, underlying infrastructure and data ingestion. Prior to joining Splunk, Morgan was the product manager for Google Cloud’s APM offerings and data ingestion for Google Cloud monitoring and logging. Before Google, Morgan was responsible for delivering high-scale e-commerce services at Microsoft.
Steve Flanders
Director of Engineering - Splunk
As engineering director at Splunk, Steve leads Observability "Getting Data In," The top contributor to the CNCF OpenTelemetry project. Previously, he served as a founding member and head of product at Omnition and global engineering manager for log analytics at VMware. Steve's background includes business strategy, software development, product management, user experience and operations management. He uses data-driven decision-making, agile development processes and teamwork to create innovative and sustainable solutions and is distinctly passionate about open source software and democratizing data. Steve authors SFlanders.net, a technology-centric weblog and presents regularly at international conferences including KubeCon, Google Cloud Next and Splunk .conf.

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