As OpenTelemetry becomes the backbone of observability for cloud-native systems, scaling its adoption across diverse teams and architectures presents unique challenges. From managing collector configurations across environments to ensuring consistent schemas and maintaining collector health, platform and SRE teams often face a chaotic operational landscape.

In this session, we’ll explore real-world strategies for orchestrating OpenTelemetry at scale using GitOps principles. You’ll learn how to define reusable component templates for exporters, processors, receivers, and connectors parameterized to adapt to varying workloads. We’ll demonstrate how to dynamically create and deploy processors based on runtime needs and OTTL standard syntax and how we standardized observability across multiple teams and product lines. The session will be based on our real time experience managing hundreds of collectors running across multiple product SaaS deployment.

We’ll also showcase the use of OpAMP for real-time collector health monitoring and remote configuration management eliminating much of the manual overhead traditionally associated with large-scale observability infrastructure.