Green OpenTelemetry - Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

Learn how to balance comprehensive observability with environmental responsibility in this conference talk that explores the environmental impact of technology and observability tools. Discover practical tools and techniques for reducing your carbon footprint while maintaining effective system monitoring through OpenTelemetry. Explore Kepler for measuring energy consumption in Kubernetes clusters, Kube-Green for automatically scaling down non-production workloads, and green review practices for evaluating environmental impact. Master strategies for optimizing OpenTelemetry Collectors and Kubernetes infrastructure to minimize resource consumption without sacrificing observability capabilities. Gain insights into measuring and mitigating the environmental costs of modern cloud-native technologies while ensuring your systems remain properly monitored and observable.