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# OTel You It's Not Just for Backend!


- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage

## Description

Observability is the ability to measure the current state of a system. SREs are familiar with OpenTelemetry signals and how they can be used to diagnose issues. Yet in the frontend world, we’re behind the curve.

Join me as I dive into the current state of OpenTelemetry for Web. I’ll cover a simple example of logging, metrics and tracing using OTel web, specifically the Client Instrumentation libraries, and the types of metrics and traces we should collect to diagnose performance issues and client usage in UIs.

## Speaker

### [Carly Richmond](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@carly-richmond)

Developer Advocate Lead @ Elastic


## Related talks at this congress

- [Easy Mode Monitoring and Logging with Shiftmon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe-virtual-stage/sessions/1728-easy-mode-monitoring) — Mathias Palmersheim
- [When React Meets Reality: Building a Real-Time Control Room for Autonomous Vehicles](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe-virtual-stage/sessions/1642-when-react-meets) — Mykhailo Naumenko
- [From Black Box to Glass Box : Bedrock AgentCore Observability](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe-virtual-stage/sessions/1729-from-black-box-to) — Yasemin Aktürk
- [Better Together: Leveraging Your Observability Tools as a SIEM](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe-virtual-stage/sessions/1727-better-together) — Mathias Palmersheim