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OPEN SOURCEOBSERVABILITYDAY 2026

Open Tools, Open Minds, Open Observability

October 15–16, 2026
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Online Conference
Free to attend

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37
Days
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04
Hours
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33
Min
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53
Sec
5,600+
Total Registrants
26+
Expert Speakers
2
Editions
28+
Sessions
100%
Free to Attend

* Combined stats from OSOD 2024 & 2025

About the Conference

Where Observability Meets Open Source

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.

Discover Open Source Tools

Explore cutting-edge observability tools emerging from the open source ecosystem.

Learn from Experts

Hear talks from industry leaders at companies like AWS, Dynatrace, VictoriaMetrics, and Coroot.

Gain Practical Skills

Walk away with hands-on knowledge and real-world case studies you can apply immediately.

Global Community

Connect with 2,000+ developers and SREs from across the observability community worldwide.

Call for Papers is Open

Speak at OSOD 2026

Share your expertise on OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, eBPF, SRE, and more. Submit your talk proposal — deadline August 31, 2026.

CFP Opens: May 1, 2026
Deadline: Aug 31, 2026

Free to submit · All experience levels welcome

OSOD 2026 Key Dates

Mark Your Calendar

Stay up to date with important milestones for Open Source Observability Day 2026.

Topics We Cover

Sessions across the full observability spectrum

Tracing & Distributed Tracing
Log Management
Alerting & Incident Management
Cloud-Native Observability
Security Monitoring
SRE Best Practices
eBPF for Observability
Machine Learning & AI
Metrics
Kubernetes Observability
OpenTelemetry
Database Observability
Data Visualization
ClickHouse
Prometheus
Cost Optimization
OSOD 2026

Meet the Speakers

23 practitioners from Netdata, Microsoft, AWS, VictoriaMetrics, Percona and more — speaking October 15–16, 2026.

Aliaksandr Valialkin

Aliaksandr Valialkin

CTO · VictoriaMetrics

30-min talk — How to create a database optimized for petabytes of logs and wide events

David Stokes

David Stokes

Community Manager · DBeaver

30-min talk — What To Teach Your AI About YOUR Database

Nilushan Costa

Nilushan Costa

Associate Technical Lead · WSO2

30-min talk — Embedding Observability into Your Internal Developer Platform

Akila Induranga

Akila Induranga

Senior Software Engineer · WSO2

30-min talk — Kubernetes Events Are Telemetry Too: An OpenTelemetry Processor for the Fourth Signal

Neel Shah

Neel Shah

Developer Advocate · StackGen

45-min talk — Building robust LLM observability and improve security posture with OpenLit and OpenTelemetry

Valeria Bogatyreva

Valeria Bogatyreva

Product Marketing · Percona

30-min talk — Notes from the inbox: what several hundred teams told us about database observability

Sonia Valeja

Sonia Valeja

PostgreSQL DBA · Percona

30-min talk — A Slow Query Is a Symptom: Finding the Real Cause with SQL Observability

Hari Rangarajan

Hari Rangarajan

Developer Advocate · Solace

45-min talk — Two Half-Traces: Closing the Gap Between Distributed Tracing and Agent Observability

Alejandro Mercado

Alejandro Mercado

Sr. DevOps Consultant · Deloitte

30-min talk — Solving the Kubernetes Noisy Neighbor Problem at the Kernel Layer

Phil Wilkins

Phil Wilkins

Architect & Author · Spinnaker Support

45-min talk — Beyond Observability: Using OpAMP to Understand and Orchestrate the Distributed Observability Estate

Siddhesh Kumbhare

Siddhesh Kumbhare

AWS

30-min talk — Observability – From Complexity to Clarity

Aiswarya Venkitesh

Aiswarya Venkitesh

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

Yossi Eliaz

Yossi Eliaz

Principal Engineer, AI Systems · Incredibuild

30-min talk — Observing Ephemeral Sandboxes: Tracing Thousands of Short-Lived AI Agent Runs

Sabith Karippullil Soopy

Sabith Karippullil Soopy

Principal Engineer · StackGen

30-min talk — Observability for AI Agents — Session Traces, Tool Attribution, Token Budgets

Kate Astrid

Kate Astrid

Senior Product Engineer · Cogram

30-min talk — Your Brain Runs On Legacy Code

Hamza Essad

Hamza Essad

Offensive Cybersecurity Consultant · Nearsecure

30-min talk — SQLi: From SELECT to root

Aman Goyal

Aman Goyal

T-Mobile

Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar

Walmart

Observability Beyond Dashboards: Detecting Failure Before ML-Driven Operations Break

Chala Koneni

Chala Koneni

Amazon

When Everything Is Green but the Data Is Wrong: Observability for Silent Pipeline Failures

Previous Editions

Previous Events

Two years of bringing the open source observability community together.

2025
All sessions recorded

OSOD 2025

October 23–24, 2025

Open Tools, Open Minds, Open Observability

15
Talks
15
Speakers
2d
Days

Featured Speakers

Adam Gardner
Adam Gardner
Dynatrace
Dotan Horovits
Dotan Horovits
AWS
Peter Zaitsev
Peter Zaitsev
Coroot
Costa Tsaousis
Costa Tsaousis
Netdata
& more...
2024
All sessions recorded

OSOD 2024

October 24, 2024

Explore In-Depth Sessions on Open Source Observability

13
Talks
11
Speakers
1d
Days

Featured Speakers

Charity Majors
Charity Majors
Honeycomb
Peter Zaitsev
Peter Zaitsev
Coroot
Costa Tsaousis
Costa Tsaousis
Netdata
Dotan Horovits
Dotan Horovits
AWS
& more...
OSOD 2025 Sponsors

Past Sponsors & Partners

The organisations that made OSOD 2025 possible. Interested in sponsoring 2026? We'd love to hear from you.

Silver Sponsors
PerconaCorootVictoriaMetrics
Community Partner
Open Observability Talks
Media Partners
SemaphoreReleemObservability 360
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