Adopting Open Telemetry Collector at eBay - Swapping Engines Mid-Flight

Explore eBay's journey in adopting the Open Telemetry Collector in this insightful conference talk. Discover how eBay transitioned from Elastic Beats to Open Telemetry without disrupting metric collection in their large-scale Kubernetes environment. Learn about the challenges faced in large Kubernetes installations, the advantages of annotation-based discovery at scale, and the process of replacing Metricbeat with Open Telemetry Collector. Gain valuable insights into bridging critical gaps, including dynamic configuration reloading and addressing semantic differences between Prometheus receiver and stock Prometheus. Understand the solutions implemented to ensure data parity post-migration and the importance of adopting open standards in observability practices.