Observability at the edge: OpenTelemetry maturity of Kubernetes Ingress

Ingress controllers are the front door to Kubernetes, yet observability at the edge is often overlooked. As ingress-nginx approaches deprecation, platform teams must reassess ingress choices and their OpenTelemetry support. This session introduces a draft OpenTelemetry maturity framework and applies it to popular ingress controllers to reveal strengths, gaps, and trade-offs.

This webinar will explore:

• How to evaluate OpenTelemetry support beyond “does it emit telemetry” using a draft, multi-dimensional maturity framework covering integration surface, semantics, trace modeling, multi-signal correlation, and stability.
• Why ingress observability is critical for platform teams, and how missing or incorrect edge telemetry breaks distributed traces, latency attribution, and root-cause analysis.
• What today’s ingress controllers get right - and wrong through real-world evaluations of widely used controllers, highlighting practical implications for platform design, migration decisions, and future observability architectures.

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.
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Speaker:
Kasper Borg Nissen - Principal Developer Advocate @ Dash0

Kasper Borg Nissen is a Principal Developer Advocate at Dash0, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, and a CNCF Ambassador with deep experience in platform engineering and observability. He focuses on OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes infrastructure, and observability as a platform capability. Kasper is a frequent speaker at KubeCon and CNCF events and is actively involved in shaping OpenTelemetry adoption across the cloud-native ecosystem.