A day in Warsaw with a vibrant Polish community. Alex Chircop on where the CNCF is heading, Paweł Sułkowski's bakery trap, Marcus Noble's Kube-Oddities, €230,000 of GitOps scale testing, capybaras and AI delegation from Adriana and Josh, Julia's career traced with OpenTelemetry, my talk on observability as a platform product, and a photo with Jerzy Dudek.
The first Observability Summit Europe took place in Prague, five months after OpenTelemetry graduated. The talks I caught were about what happens after hello world: getting the Collector into production, making it stable by default, and getting GenAI telemetry to converge on OpenTelemetry.
Telemetry can already show what an AI agent did. Deciding whether it should have done it is the harder problem, and it came up on stage and at both dinners at SREday London.
goose speaks OTLP, so a local coding-agent session becomes a trace you can read: which tools ran, how long each model call took, and where the tokens actually went.
Most organizations have observability as a capability, not as a product. Platform engineering was Kubernetes' Rails moment; observability is still looking for its own.