Webinar | Leveraging OpenTelemetry for Observability & Improving User Experience

Overview

‍This webinar is for IT Professionals who want to understand how Splunk Observability (O11y) Cloud and OTel can help standardize infrastructure telemetry data, pinpoint issues, and correlate them with user impact across one's ecosystem. Join us on Wednesday, January 15th to explore the role of OpenTelemetry in advancing infrastructure monitoring, APM, and user experience.
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‍Date and time: On Wednesday, January 15th, from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Central)

Webinar Takeaways

Gain insights into how diverse telemetry data - spanning infrastructure, Kubernetes containers, APM, and more - can be standardized through OpenTelemetry (OTel) and aligned with business KPI's. This approach helps quantify user impact and empowers teams to make swift, informed decisions when incidents occur.

OpenTelemetry, the data standard from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, represents the future of observability. With its lightweight, agentless integration across APM vendors, OTel offers a streamlined solution for modern monitoring.

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Who should attend:‍

- Network Engineers
- DevOps
- Applications/ Monitoring
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Software Engineering & Tools teams
- Infrastructure engineers

Whether managing on-prem, cloud, or multi-cloud systems across AWS, Azure, GCP, or other hyperscalers, this webinar will provide valuable strategies to elevate your Observability practice.

Agenda (Central):

12:00 pm
Welcome and introductions to the Evolutio and Splunk teams

12:10 pm
Review of OTel Signals (MELT Framework), Instrumentation, and why it matters for Observability & user experience

12:30 pm
Live lab environment demo - exploring OpenTelemetry

12:45 pm
Wrap-up & key takeaways

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We look forward to you joining us to explore a methodology for tackling OpenTelemetry's potential at your organization.

Presenter

Author

Forrest Smietankski

Full Stack Observability Architect, USA, Evolutio

Forrest joined Evolutio in 2022 as a Consultant in the Observability practice area, bringing a decade of experience in software engineering, cloud architectures, and solving large scale enterprise issues. Wearing multiple hats during a long career at Liberty Mutual; Forrest brings financial and insurance industry experience to Evolutio customers. Forrest loves working with customers on solving complex problems, and is excited to collaborate with the other Evolutio practice areas, particularly in DevOps/ Automation and data science by applying ML and AI models to customer problems.

Laura Vetter

CTO & Co-founder, USA, Evolutio

Laura Vetter is a subject matter expert in methodology and tooling for Monitoring, DevOps, and full stack Observability, namely with AppDynamics and other Performance Monitoring Tools in the competitive landscape. With over 20 years of hands-on experience working in IT Ops and leading large teams, she is particularly skilled in understanding how those tools can meet the visibility needs of application-driven, Fortune 500 organizations.

Laura is well-versed in building solutions for monitoring, alerting, and reporting demands at scale. With her team of consultants and solutions architects, they roadmap process to help organizations mature along the curve, wherever they're at in the journey.

As well, Laura is a certified subject matter expert in Splunk, monitoring global SAP ERP landscapes, and enabling Software Development and DevOps teams to leverage governance process for onboarding apps to CI/CD pipelines to get more secure and quality deployments.