Explore the unique characteristics of telecom applications deployed in disaggregated and distributed manners on cloud-native platforms in this 24-minute conference talk. Delve into the architectural principles behind network functions and their associated management systems, then discover the importance of telemetry data and examine domain-specific requirements essential for enabling autonomous network management. Learn how these concepts can be implemented using solutions from the CNCF ecosystem through a real-world example that illustrates the use of the OpenTelemetry framework for next-level telco observability in autonomous networks.