
Open Tools, Open Minds, Open Observability
Countdown to OSOD 2026
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Open Source Observability Day is a dedicated conference showcasing the latest advancements in observability within the open-source ecosystem. Now entering its third year, the event brings together experts, developers, and enthusiasts to explore tools, best practices, and real-world case studies for improving software systems.
Explore cutting-edge observability tools emerging from the open source ecosystem.
Hear talks from industry leaders at companies like AWS, Dynatrace, VictoriaMetrics, and Coroot.
Walk away with hands-on knowledge and real-world case studies you can apply immediately.
Connect with 2,000+ developers and SREs from across the observability community worldwide.
Stay up to date with important milestones for Open Source Observability Day 2026.
Sessions across the full observability spectrum
23 practitioners from Netdata, Microsoft, AWS, VictoriaMetrics, Percona and more — speaking October 15–16, 2026.
CTO · VictoriaMetrics
30-min talk — How to create a database optimized for petabytes of logs and wide events
Community Manager · DBeaver
30-min talk — What To Teach Your AI About YOUR Database

Associate Technical Lead · WSO2
30-min talk — Embedding Observability into Your Internal Developer Platform

Senior Software Engineer · WSO2
30-min talk — Kubernetes Events Are Telemetry Too: An OpenTelemetry Processor for the Fourth Signal
Developer Advocate · StackGen
45-min talk — Building robust LLM observability and improve security posture with OpenLit and OpenTelemetry

Product Marketing · Percona
30-min talk — Notes from the inbox: what several hundred teams told us about database observability
PostgreSQL DBA · Percona
30-min talk — A Slow Query Is a Symptom: Finding the Real Cause with SQL Observability

Developer Advocate · Solace
45-min talk — Two Half-Traces: Closing the Gap Between Distributed Tracing and Agent Observability
Sr. DevOps Consultant · Deloitte
30-min talk — Solving the Kubernetes Noisy Neighbor Problem at the Kernel Layer
Architect & Author · Spinnaker Support
45-min talk — Beyond Observability: Using OpAMP to Understand and Orchestrate the Distributed Observability Estate
AWS
30-min talk — Observability – From Complexity to Clarity

Principal Cloud Solution Architect · Microsoft
30-min talk — You Can't Instrument Your Way Out of This: The Architecture Decisions That Decide What You Can Observe
Principal Engineer, AI Systems · Incredibuild
30-min talk — Observing Ephemeral Sandboxes: Tracing Thousands of Short-Lived AI Agent Runs
Principal Engineer · StackGen
30-min talk — Observability for AI Agents — Session Traces, Tool Attribution, Token Budgets

Senior Product Engineer · Cogram
30-min talk — Your Brain Runs On Legacy Code
Offensive Cybersecurity Consultant · Nearsecure
30-min talk — SQLi: From SELECT to root

T-Mobile

Walmart
Observability Beyond Dashboards: Detecting Failure Before ML-Driven Operations Break
Amazon
When Everything Is Green but the Data Is Wrong: Observability for Silent Pipeline Failures
Two years of bringing the open source observability community together.
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Three ways to be part of OSOD 2026
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