Monthly Discussion Group

Monthly OpenTelemetry usage discussions, all are welcome!

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.

New for 2023!

  • APAC (Asia Pacific) sessions begin, come join the first session on January 18!
  • 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.
  • The Chatham House Rule will no longer be applied, and sessions will be recorded. This will help make the feedback more discoverable by the community.

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 CET (GMT +1), join here
    • January 17
    • February 21
  • APAC (Asia Pacific): every third Wednesday of the month at 11AM IST (GMT +5.5), join here
    • January 18
    • February 15
  • AMER (Americas): every third Thursday of the month at 9AM PST (GMT -8), join here
    • January 19
    • February 16

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.