Debugging the Pipeline - Observability for Your Observability with OTel and Prometheus

Learn to monitor and debug your observability infrastructure in this conference talk that explores meta-observability strategies for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus deployments. Discover how to identify and resolve common issues when collectors stop scraping, Target Allocators malfunction, and metrics disappear during critical moments. Explore pipeline health signals, configuration debugging techniques, and performance bottleneck identification using Prometheus to monitor the OTel Collector pipeline itself. Examine Target Allocator troubleshooting methods, Prometheus remote write problem resolution, and practical alerting setup strategies to prevent observability stack failures. Gain insights from real-world production scenarios and war stories while learning to create effective monitoring dashboards for your observability tools. Master the essential skills needed to maintain reliable observability infrastructure in production environments running Prometheus and OpenTelemetry combinations.