IoT and Distributed Systems come with numerous challenges of their own. Here, we will attempt to use OpenTelemetry and concepts from the Kubernetes and microservices Observability paradigm to the field of IoT. In doing so, we will achieve better observability and understanding of IoT systems and their components. Such understanding of the functioning of an IoT system will allow for deeper insights, easier triage and resolution of issues and better capacity planning. The marriage of OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes also extends to actionable insights, focusing on curating metrics, logs, and traces, best practices for meaningful alerting, queries, and operational dashboards, and addressing interoperability and tooling challenges in the IoT landscape. We hope to simplify the practical implementation of OpenTelemetry's instrumentation libraries, enabling developers to seamlessly integrate observability in their IoT applications.