Oct 2026 Meetup: Backstage and OpenTelemetry
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Instrument Backstage with OpenTelemetry: From Zero Visibility to Full Traces in Minutes
Backstage has built-in OpenTelemetry support that most teams never configure. The result — plugin failures, scaffolder timeouts, and catalog slowdowns that are completely invisible.
This talk shows exactly how to enable full OTel observability in your Backstage instance with a single instrumentation file — capturing traces and metrics from the catalog, scaffolder, and plugins in under 10 minutes.
What we cover:
- Why Backstage is an observability blind spot by default
- The one instrumentation file that changes everything
- Key traces and metrics you unlock immediately
- Where to send your Backstage telemetry
Takeaway:
- Copy-paste OTel setup for Backstage backend
- Instant visibility into catalog, scaffolder, and plugin health
Speaker Bio:
Mithun Banerjee is an Agentic Solution Architect at Splunk (Cisco) with 18+ years in observability, platform engineering, and cloud native infrastructure. He works daily with OpenTelemetry and builds observable AI agents .
A conference speaker across CNCF and Cisco Live communities, he is speaking at KubeCon NA 2026 (BackstageCon) and was a panelist at Harness {unscripted} Dallas. He also runs Kubernetes workshops for Cloud Native Dallas.
6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Presentation
7.30 - 8.00 - Social/Wrap-up