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

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.