The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, 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.
Sponsorship opportunities remain available until May 27.
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.
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