The Hidden Cost of Bad Telemetry: Finding and Fixing What's Hurting Your Observability
Most organizations believe they need more telemetry. The reality? They're drowning in bad telemetry: PII leaks, excessive spans, bloated resource attributes, and low-value traces that create noise, security risks, and costs without delivering observability value.Drawing from experience analyzing billions of spans across production environments, this talk reveals the most common instrumentation anti-patterns and shows practical techniques to identify and eliminate them using the OpenTelemetry Collector.
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Attendees will learn how to audit their telemetry quality, implement filtering and transformation pipelines, and shift from "collect everything" to "collect what matters."
Speaker
Juraci Paixao Kroehling is Co-founder and CEO of OllyGarden, an OpenTelemetry-native platform focused on telemetry quality. He is a member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee, former Jaeger maintainer, and creator of core OpenTelemetry components including the Collector Builder and Operator. A CNCF Ambassador based in Berlin, Juraci has been contributing to the cloud native ecosystem since its early days.
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