The Signal in the Storm - Practical Strategies for Managing Telemetry Overload

Learn practical strategies for managing telemetry overload in this 27-minute conference talk from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Discover how to evolve observability practices as OpenTelemetry adoption increases telemetry data volume, which can lead to confusion, higher costs, and slower incident response times rather than better insights. Explore techniques for identifying necessary signals to detect service-impacting issues, tune observability data management strategies, and apply distributed local processing methods to observability data while preserving critical context. Examine real-world examples of effective and ineffective approaches in modern observability pipelines, and understand how to use OpenTelemetry more strategically to enhance system reliability and performance while avoiding telemetry sprawl.