CNCF Shares Schedule for Open Observability Summit North America, Gears Up for Inaugural Event
The event will unite observability leaders, developers, and end users to drive progress in observability tools and best practices
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the full schedule for Open Observability Summit.
Announced last month, the new event will take place June 26, 2025 in Denver, Colorado as a co-located event at Open Source Summit North America. Running alongside OTel Community Day, Open Observability Summit will convene observability practitioners, developers, and contributors to explore vendor neutral best practices, align on standards, and examine emerging trends like AI-powered observability.
"Observability is a necessity at cloud native scale," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. "In a fast-paced, competitive environment, organizations cannot afford downtime, blind spots, or fragile systems. This event creates a vendor neutral space for the open source observability community to come together, collaborate and foster innovation."
The schedule features keynotes, sessions, and lightning talks designed to support observability practitioners, developers, and maintainers working together to innovate. Attendees will gain insight into end-to-end observability strategies, understand how leading teams are using OpenTelemetry and AI to manage complexity, and connect with peers tackling similar challenges across industries.
Highlighted sessions include:
- Building Composable OTel Pipelines: CI/CD, Testing, Team-First, and Scalable Design - Anil Kuncham & Joe Canuel, DoorDash
- Faster Insights and Improved Accuracy: Spotify's Prometheus Upgrade - Lauren Roshore, Spotify
- Weaving Legacy and OpenTelemetry: A Schema Strategy With Weaver - Andrew Wang, Comcast Cable
- Telemetry Showdown: Fluent Bit Vs. OpenTelemetry Collector - A Comprehensive Benchmark Analysis - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
- Observability-First DevSecOps: Building Resilient Multi-Cloud Pipelines With OpenTelemetry and GitOps - Ravindra Bhargava, UPS
The sessions reflect the community's top priorities, from scaling telemetry pipelines to integrating observability into platform engineering workflows. Building on the momentum from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, where observability dominated discussions, Open Observability Summit offers a timely opportunity for organizations to address growing operational complexity, boost system reliability, and connect with the practitioners and contributors driving innovation across the ecosystem.
Datadog has joined Chronosphere and the OpenSearch Foundation as a Strategic Partner sponsor, further highlighting continued investment in growing a vibrant, standards-based observability ecosystem. As a leading observability platform, DataDog provides end-to-end visibility across infrastructure, applications, and logs, and plays an active role in promoting open standards.
Sponsorship opportunities will remain available until May 27. Review the prospectus here.
Learn more about Open Observability Summit and to view the full schedule here.
Standard registration is live and offered at US$249 through June 10, which represents a savings of US$150. A reduced registration rate is available for current full time students and faculty. Learn more here.
Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact pr@cncf.io.
Additional Resources
- CNCF Newsletter
- CNCF Twitter
- CNCF Website
- Learn About CNCF Membership
- Learn About the CNCF End User Community
About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.
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