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title: Open Source Observability with the OpenTelemetry Collector
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2023/program/proposals/994
beginning: '2023-11-04T14:20:00.000-07:00'
end: '2023-11-04T14:40:00.000-07:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2023-Open_Source_Observability_with_the_OpenTelemetry_Collector
presenters:
- name: Nočnica Mellifera
  affiliation: SigNoz
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/1035
  gravatar_id: e6912e84cf94d7f6fde581d16a22548e
  biography: Nočnica is a dev advocate specializing in cloud applications, serverless,
    and containerization. She writes regularly for The New Stack and has been published
    in Information Age and Forbes. She blogs on dev.to, streams LinkedIn and YouTube,
    and spends her weekends caring for her dozens of houseplants.
---

Observability tends to be the second most expensive part of a large team's cloud bill. With open source tools, it's possible to both cut those bills and send data in a format that can be interpreted by multiple endpoints. Nica will show you how to add Observability to your microservice architecture using OpenTelemetry
