Observability: Metrics Drilldown, OpenTelemetry & Beyla Insights

Metrics Drilldown
Grafana’s queryless solution that helps users explore massive amounts of observability data without writing complex queries. Sound familiar? As metrics become easier to collect, organizations face an even greater challenge: uncovering meaningful insights in ever-growing volumes of data.

In this talk, you’ll learn how Metrics Drilldown addresses that challenge with powerful new features for slicing, dicing, sorting, and correlating your metrics. We’ll showcase these capabilities in a live demo using OpenTelemetry data sources and show how this unified approach eliminates the usual back-and-forth between tools during troubleshooting. The result is a data exploration experience that is accessible to everyone on your team, regardless of their technical background.

eBPF/Beyla
Observability is essential, but adding it shouldn't mean rewriting your entire application. In this talk, we'll explore how Beyla, an open-source auto-instrumentation tool built by the Grafana Labs team and recently donated to the OpenTelemery Project leverages eBPF to provide zero-code, low-overhead observability for your services.

Whether you're working with Go, Java, or other languages, Beyla enables you to trace HTTP/gRPC traffic and export OpenTelemetry-compatible data all without touching your codebase. We'll dive into how Beyla works under the hood, what use cases it's best suited for, and how to get it running in minutes.

Expect a live demo, lessons learned from real-world adoption, and a practical look at how Beyla fits into modern Linux-based observability stacks. If you're ready to "auto-instrument all the things" and reduce friction between developers and observability teams, this session is for you.