Telemetry Talks ep 6 - Observability unlocked with OpenTelemetry and VictoriaMetrics

In this episode, we explore how to build a modern Kubernetes observability stack using open-source technologies such as VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Grafana. Based on a step by step workshop we gave at Cloud Native Days Romania in May, Jose is walking us through it with practical examples.

📋 Playlist

3:25 - Presentation of the workshop structure

15:00 - Install OTel Collector

19:12 - Forward metrics to a remote backend

28:42 - OpenTelemetry Instrumentation

36:24 - Forward logs

48:02 - Visualize your metrics and logs with dashboards

56:54 - Use the MCP server with the VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack

GitHub repository of the workshop: https://github.com/jgomezselles/cnd-workshop-2026/

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