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The final piece of the PaaS puzzle is observability. Once the platform is built, the challenge shifts to managing the volume of data generated by distributed services. In our first Tech Talk of 2026, Mathias and Marc discuss the technical path from platform deployment to standardized observability. We focus on the practical implementation of OpenTelemetry (OTel) and why choosing a high-performance backend is critical to avoiding the "Observability Tax.".

In the first episode of Telemetry Talks, Diana talks with Jose, VictoriaMetrics Cloud Lead, about the practical origins of observability and how OpenTelemetry is shaping modern monitoring. They cover why observability became critical as systems moved from monoliths to microservices, how OpenTelemetry unifies traces, metrics, and logs while avoiding vendor lock-in, and how it integrates natively with VictoriaMetrics.

Join Marc Sherwood and Jose Gomez-Selles as they unveil the significant updates to VictoriaMetrics Cloud from Q3 2025 and share a glimpse into the exciting roadmap for what's coming next! This session is packed with new features designed to make your monitoring experience more robust, user-friendly, and cost-effective. In this video, you'll discover: Expansion to Asia! VictoriaMetrics Cloud now has a brand new region on AWS ap-southeast-1 (Singapore) in Asia Pacific, bringing lower latency and regional data sovereignty closer to your teams and deployments.