The Observability Platform Engineering Advantage: From Zero-Code to Monitoring as Code

This keynote presentation explores how platform engineers can leverage OpenTelemetry to create a cohesive observability strategy that benefits both applications and the platform itself. Discover why observability shouldn't be an afterthought in platform engineering and how settling for "good enough" approaches leads to fragmented data, complex query languages, and vendor lock-in. Learn how OpenTelemetry, a CNCF project, unifies observability data across traces, logs, and metrics while reducing metadata fragmentation and vendor-specific dependencies. Explore the implementation of zero-code instrumentation that allows developers to collect insights effortlessly while platform engineers enforce observability as code. The 15-minute talk by Kasper Borg Nissen, Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0, demonstrates practical approaches to simplifying instrumentation, leveraging monitoring as code with OpenTelemetry Operator and Perses (CNCF Sandbox project), and optimizing observability across multiple layers of your platform. By embracing open standards, build a more resilient, insight-driven platform with enhanced visibility and reduced complexity.