AI Enabled Observability Explainers - We Actually Did Something With AI!

Keynote presentation from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 where Vijay Samuel, Principal MTS and Architect at eBay, demonstrates practical AI applications in observability. Discover how eBay's Observability platform team developed "Explainers" for telemetry signals by combining algorithms with LLMs to create predictable and accurate interpretations of OTEL trace waterfalls. Learn about their innovative approach that goes beyond simply feeding data into LLMs, including techniques like critical path detection that enhance trace analysis. The presentation covers how these building block explainers work together to create compound explainers capable of interpreting dashboards, metrics, and logs. This 15-minute talk showcases a real-world implementation of AI in cloud native observability rather than theoretical concepts.