KubeCon 2024 | Interviews with Observability Experts | Morgan McLean on Profiling and OpenTelemetry

At KubeCon 2024, I sat down with Morgan McLean, Senior Director of Product Management at Splunk and co-founder of OpenTelemetry, to discuss the latest developments shaping the observability landscape.
Here are some of the key things we discussed:
- The addition of profiling as the fourth core observability signal in OpenTelemetry and the value of correlating profiling signals with metrics, traces, and logs
- The benefits of OpenTelemetry’s vendor-agnostic approach
- Emerging trends in observability
- Challenges implementing observability solutions in an organization
- The growing adoption of OpenTelemetry by organizations as the foundation of their observability framework

TOC:
00:00 Introduction
00:10 Interview summary
04:00 Guest introductions
04:40 Current OpenTelemetry projects
05:34 Profiling
09:51 Adoption of profiling
14:03 Interesting KubeCon presentations
15:47 Challenges implementing observability
18:55 Benefits of observability
22:37 Avoiding vendor lock-in with OpenTelemetry
26:22 Surprising observability use cases
29:05 Conclusion