Microservices often get a bad rap for being complex, brittle, and hard to debug. What if the real problem isn’t the architecture, but the lack of visibility?

With proper observability, even the most labyrinthine microservice can be tamed.

That’s where OpenTelemetry (OTEL) comes in. By instrumenting tracing, metrics, and logs, it can shed light on the dark corners of your system,

turning confusion into clarity. In this talk, we’ll explore how OTEL helps teams regain control, share lessons from real-world deployments, and show how proper observability alleviate the headaches of using microservices.

If you’ve ever questioned your life choices while debugging a distributed system, this talk is for you. With the right observability strategy, you might just learn to love your microservices!