Introduction
KubeCon NA 2025 is just around the corner, and we're excited to share some of the top observability sessions we're looking forward to. From the latest trends in observability to the latest tools and technologies, we've got you covered. In this blog, we'll take a look at some of the top observability-related sessions addressing real-world pain points—scalability, actionable telemetry, deep tracing, seamless integration, and emerging AI-driven workflows. Whether you’re leading platform engineering, running Kubernetes at massive scale, or just starting with OpenTelemetry adoption, these sessions will provide actionable strategies, expert insights, and hands-on experience with the latest tools and trends.
Here’s a curated preview of the top observability-related sessions to look forward to at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. These summaries highlight the breadth of innovation, practical insight, and future-thinking you’ll encounter at the conference:
Top Observability Sessions at KubeCon NA 2025
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Taming Telemetry at Scale: Platform Blueprints for Consistent Observability
This session focuses on strategies and blueprints for building scalable, consistent observability platforms, addressing key telemetry challenges in modern distributed systems. Read more -
Talk to Your Dashboards: Using MCP and LLMs to Simplify Observability
This session focuses on how advances in Model Context Protocol (MCP) and large language models are being used to simplify dashboard interactions for cloud-native observability. Read more -
Making Application Rollouts Observable, Actionable and Boring
This session focuses on how to improve visibility and automate the actionability of application rollouts, helping teams achieve predictable, “boring” releases. Read more -
Instrumentation Score: The Difference Between Telemetry and Good Telemetry
This session focuses on how to separate basic telemetry from truly effective observability instrumentation and how to measure your system’s “Instrumentation Score”.Read more -
Integrating Data Center Observability Into Cloud Native Environment
This session focuses on how to bridge the gap between traditional data center monitoring with cloud-native observability techniques, bridging two worlds for holistic insight. Read more -
Retrofitting OTEL Collectors & Prometheus to Overcome Scale and Design Limitations
This session focuses on how to explore advanced strategies for enhancing OpenTelemetry and Prometheus deployments, overcoming limitations in scale and architecture. Read more -
From Panic to Peace: Improving Kubernetes Controller Observability
This session focuses on how to make Kubernetes controller observability more reliable – perfect for teams tired of firefighting incidents. Read more -
OTel+K8s: An Introduction to OpenTelemetry for Kubernetes Users
This session focuses on how to leverage OpenTelemetry for comprehensive Kubernetes observability and resource monitoring. Read more -
Beyond the Dashboard: Modern Observability for Platform Engineering at Scale
This panel discussion focuses on how to leverage a compelling discussion about new approaches and best practices for observability at scale, especially for platform engineering teams. Read more -
Building Scalable End-to-End Latency Metrics from Distributed Trace
This session focuses on how to leverage distributed tracing to enable meaningful latency metrics, crucial for debugging and optimizing performance. Read more -
End-to-End Tracing for Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry
This session focuses on how to leverage insights from Netflix’s implementation of full-stack tracing within Kubernetes cluster, using OpenTelemetry. Read more -
Debugging Your Cluster When It’s on Fire
This session focuses on how to leverage troubleshooting tips for cluster failures—what to do when things go wrong in production. Read more -
Zero-Downtime Telemetry: Hot Reloading OpenTelemetry Collector Pipelines
This session focuses on how to make OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines reload without downtime, for continuous monitoring. Read more -
Designing for Observability: From Noise to Insight
This session focuses on how to leverage best practices for transforming observability “noise” into actionable intelligence. Read more -
OpenTelemetry Logs: Driving a Major Shift in Event Data & Semantics
This session focuses on how to leverage innovations in event data handling using OpenTelemetry logs for richer, smarter observability. Read more -
Diagnosing Application Performance with EBPF, Pyroscope, and Kubernetes
This session focuses on how to leverage modern techniques for diagnosing app performance using advanced profiling and tracing tools. Read more -
Observing Dark Matter with OpenTelemetry
This session focuses on how to illuminate hard-to-monitor “dark matter” in distributed systems with OpenTelemetry. Read more
Meet us at Kubecon NA 2025
Headed to KubeCon NA 2025? Swing by booth 1852 and see how Parseable ends dashboard sprawl for good. We’ll be showcasing our brand-new Keystone agent, watch it turn natural-language questions into point-in-time answers, slice straight through noisy telemetry, and surface the exact service or endpoint at fault. Grab a live demo, collect some limited-edition swag, and glimpse what truly proactive observability looks like in 2025.
