Tracing Adventures from Pull Request to Production - Using OpenTelemetry for Deploy Troubleshooting

Watch a 31-minute conference talk exploring how distributed tracing and trace-derived metrics can improve collaboration between developers and operators during deployment troubleshooting. Learn how issues can emerge from application code, YAML configurations, infrastructure, and pipeline logic when moving from pull request to production deployment. Follow along as speaker Paige Cruz analyzes a problematic deployment from both developer and operations perspectives, demonstrating how OpenTelemetry signals can enhance deploy system observability for faster problem resolution and better cross-team coordination.