OpenTelemetry Meetup @ Collibra

Join our next meetup at Collibra on June 4th! We will have 3 talks about OpenTelemetry and will share some food and drinks while networking

Location: Collibra, Rue Picard 11, 1000 Bruxelles

Agenda:
17:45 : Doors open
18:00 - 18:30 : Drinks and pizza
18:30 - 19:10 : TBC talk from Elastic
19:10 - 19:50 : Taming Tenancy, Cost and Architecture at Collibra Through OpenTelemetry and Our Telemetry Backbone
19:50 - 20.30 : TBC talk #3
20:30 : Wrap up

Talks:
Talk from Elastic tbc
Speaker: João Marques Correia, Software Engineer at Elastic

Taming Tenancy, Cost and Architecture at Collibra Through OpenTelemetry and Our Telemetry Backbone
Operating a SaaS platform presents the same observability problems as any other enterprise, but due to the scale and tenancy, we introduce a huge multiplier on the observability signals, having an effect on cost and effectiveness.

This session dives into the techniques Collibra used to tame these problems and how to maintain clarity when infrastructure spans virtual machines, modern Kubernetes clusters, and a complex mix of single- and multi-tenant architectures. Without the right context, telemetry data becomes a noisy, indistinguishable flood.

We will dive into the architectural decision to leverage the C4 system model, ensuring every piece of telemetry carries the vital context of what it belongs to and where it sits in the hierarchy. Enabling us to gain insights into both signal attribution and allowing virtual chargebacks. The presentation details the implementation of a pipeline using custom-built OpenTelemetry collectors designed to handle the data and enrich it before sending it to the appropriate backends.

This session will give you practical insights on the challenges SaaS platforms have, but the techniques that are used to tame them can be applied everywhere.

Speaker: Alex Van Boxel, Principal System Architect at Collibra

Bios
Alex Van Boxel is a Principal System Architect at Collibra. With an engineering background in Research and Development at Alcatel-Lucent, Progress Software, and Veepee he loves to focus on the fundamental building blocks of the software industry. That means reading, understanding, and contributing to specifications, as well as contributing to the Open Source projects that run through our infrastructure. He is code-owner of two components of the OpenTelemetry collector.

Thanks to Collibra for hosting this meetup!