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# From Signal to Action: Empowering Your AI SRE with OpenTelemetry Data


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 13:30–15:30 (120 min)
- **Room:** Stage 14
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

AI SRE agents are becoming the modern way to investigate alerts and incidents, but they are only as good as the telemetry they are fed. Without a solid data foundation, an agent is guessing. OpenTelemetry closes that gap: it gives us a vendor-neutral, industry-standard signal set that large language models can actually reason over.

This workshop walks the full path from scratch - and without touching application code. Instrumentation is added entirely from the outside, so services are covered as they run rather than after a refactor. From there we wire it up through the OpenTelemetry Collector and ship the data to a central backend, then hand off to the agent (dash0 Agent0) and close the loop: alert fires, agent investigates, agent correlates traces, metrics and logs, and drafts a ready-to-merge PR with the fix.

You will leave with a concrete blueprint for the full circle - observing, alerting, and acting autonomously - built entirely on open standards, with no code changes required to get there.

## Speakers

### [Julia Furst Morgado](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@julia-furst-morgado)

Principal Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0
### [Raphael Manke](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@raphael-manke)

Senior Product engineer


## Related talks at this congress

- [Your Agents Need Observability Before They Need Better Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1825-your-agents-need) — Julia Furst Morgado
- [Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1408-closing-the) — Vivek Pandit
- [Taming Rogue Agents: Observability-Driven Evaluation for Production Reliability](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1768-taming-rogue-agents) — Anagha Rumade, Anjana Umapathy, Apoorva Jaiswal
- [21 Experiments in Six Weeks: A Playbook for Improving Your AI Agent](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1793-21-experiments-in) — Sofia Rest

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## Links

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