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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

The OpenTelemetry mistakes I keep seeing (and how to stop making them)

Juraci Paixão Kröhling

Is your OpenTelemetry setup leaking passwords or flooding your backend with noise? Learn how to permanently fix dangerous instrumentation anti-patterns today.

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#1 about 5 min

Why telemetry is critical for modern software development

Telemetry serves as the primary source of truth when developers delegate code writing to AI agents.

#2 about 4 min

Distinguishing between telemetry, monitoring, and observability

Telemetry provides raw data, monitoring answers known systems questions, and observability enables ad-hoc application investigations.

#3 about 7 min

Preventing sensitive data leaks in application telemetry

Capturing everything by default often leads to accidentally exposing passwords, email addresses, and personally identifiable information.

#4 about 3 min

Avoiding over-instrumentation and unnecessary tracing noise

Recording every microsecond function call or static asset request creates overwhelming system noise instead of actionable insights.

#5 about 3 min

Planning instrumentation around critical application failure scenarios

Anticipating late-night on-call emergencies guides the implementation of telemetry that effectively answers critical system questions.

#6 about 3 min

Choosing the correct telemetry signal for the job

Using logs for high-frequency application events obscures insights that simple metrics or distributed traces naturally provide.

#7 about 2 min

Key takeaways for building trustworthy application telemetry

Regularly reviewing raw production data reveals hidden data leaks and unnecessary noise before real incidents happen.

#8 about 4 min

Handling compliance, logging definitions, and AI agent output

Audience questions clarify GDPR compliance boundaries and identify dangerous default instrumentation patterns produced by AI code generators.

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Maintaining code quality with open standard observability and pipelines

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Core concepts of application instrumentation and telemetry

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Tracing agent telemetry with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger tools

Roberto Carratalá Roberto Carratalá · World Congress 2025

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Fixing broken telemetry streams with OpenTelemetry foundations

Julia Furst Morgado Julia Furst Morgado · World Congress 2026 North America

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Discovering incidents using logs, metrics, and traces

Nele Uhlemann · World Congress 2023

1:49 min

Final takeaways on application telemetry and tracing

Developersteve · LIVE

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