Declarative Configuration in OTel (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OTel Community Call #1)

We’re kicking off a brand-new Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OpenTelemetry Community Call!
Join us as we dive into getting observability into your apps and infrastructure with Grafana, powered by OpenTelemetry. In this session, we’ll dive into Declarative Config — the new way to make OpenTelemetry onboarding simple and powerful. Instead of juggling environment variables or boilerplate in your startup code, declarative config gives you a clean, language-agnostic approach that works across SDKs and unlocks future possibilities like remote configuration.
Join us with Marylia Gutierrez (OTel JavaScript approver & core contributor) to explore:
🔹 What declarative configuration is and why it matters
🔹 Which languages already support it
🔹 How it handles customizations and advanced scenarios
Marylia will also share her perspective on contributing to OpenTelemetry:
✨ Tips for getting started as a contributor
✨ What the contributor experience looks like in practice
✨ Insights on the growing OTel ecosystem and where it’s headed
Don’t miss it — whether you’re adopting OTel or looking to contribute, this session is packed with practical knowledge and community insights.
Marylia is joined by Developer Advocates Liudmila Molkova and Nicole van der Hoeven from Grafana Labs.

This event will be livestreamed on YouTube and published on the same link after the fact: https://youtube.com/live/FwnyV5z_ij4