Alexander Wert
With a decade in Observability, Alex Wert is an enthusiast dedicated to advancing the field. In various roles he has engaged with diverse open and proprietary observability solutions. Presently leading Elastic's Edge Collection team, Alex contributes actively to the open-source community. He is a maintainer of the OTel Semantic Conventions project and spearheads Elastic's commitment to OTel through leading the contribution of the Elastic Common Schema and other OTel contributions from Elastic.
Director of Software Engineering at Elastic
Session
Not least thanks to OpenTelemetry, there is a mature ecosystem of standards, frameworks and tools for observability. Yet, concerns and false myths around instrumentation overhead still discourage some engineers and organizations from properly adopting observability practices.
In this lightning talk, we will demystify instrumentation overhead and clear up misconceptions about instrumentation overhead.
- What is instrumentation overhead?
- When is it becoming a problem and when is it negligible?
- What are most common sources of overhead in practice?
We aim at inspiring attendees to think pragmatically about instrumentation overhead of their application and balance out valid concerns and unnecessary anxiety.