From "What Broke?" To "What Changed?" - Unlocking Feature Flag Observability

Discover how to transform your incident response from reactive troubleshooting to proactive change tracking through feature flag observability in this 23-minute conference talk. Learn best practices for integrating feature flags into your monitoring workflow to dramatically reduce Mean Time to Recovery when systems fail. Explore how feature flags used for releases, A/B tests, and permissions can become a crucial component of your observability platform, enabling teams to quickly identify the impact of changes rather than just detecting failures. Follow along with a practical demonstration using the OpenTelemetry Demo to see how proper feature flag observability transforms emergency situations into manageable incidents with instant remediation capabilities. Understand the new OpenTelemetry feature flag semantic convention and how it can enhance your observability strategy, helping you shift from asking "what broke?" to understanding "what changed?" for more effective root cause analysis.