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KubeCon Europe 2026: OpenTelemetry Recap from Amsterdam

The reason why I like writing recap articles is because AIs don’t have enough context to write them for us. You have to be there, in person, listen to sessions, interact in the hallways with the community, and absorb as much new knowledge as possible. That’s what I did last week in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe ‘26. Well, at least I tried to. Let me break down what I consider the most interesting topics were last week.

OpAMP for OpenTelemetry: Managing Collector Fleets and Introducing the New OpAMP Gateway Extension

Today, Bindplane is launching the OpAMP Gateway Extension in alpha — a new component that extends OpAMP fleet management into network-segmented and firewalled environments where direct agent-to-server connectivity is not possible. It also addresses fleet scaling by fanning many agent connections into a small upstream pool, reducing connection load on the OpAMP server. We also hope to donate the OpAMP Gateway Extension upstream to the OpenTelemetry project and welcome community contributions.

Claude Code + OpenTelemetry: Per-Session Cost and Token Tracking

I was looking at our Claude Code spend in the Anthropic console the other day. Aggregate cost, aggregate tokens — no breakdown by developer, no breakdown by session. I knew my Hackathon team had been using it heavily on building out new features for the OpenTelemetry Distro Builder. But heavily how? I had no idea. Turns out Claude Code has been emitting OpenTelemetry signals the whole time. Per-session cost, token counts, every tool call it makes on your codebase.

Bindplane + VictoriaMetrics: Unified Telemetry for Metrics, Traces, and Logs at Scale

We’re excited to announce new native Bindplane destinations for the VictoriaMetrics ecosystem. It’s now easier to collect, process, and route OpenTelemetry metrics, traces, and logs at scale. You can directly connect VictoriaMetrics’ high-performance storage engines to Bindplane’s vendor-neutral, OpenTelemetry-native telemetry pipeline.

Bindplane Blueprints for Elasticsearch: Production-Ready NGINX Log Pipelines for Kibana

We've just released new and easy-to-use Bindplane blueprints designed specifically for Elasticsearch as a destination. These blueprints empower teams to quickly transform raw events such as those from NGINX access and error logs into clean, structured, and ECS-compliant data optimized for high-performance visualization in Kibana.

ISO 27K Without the Bloat: An Open Source Approach

It’s often framed as an enterprise-only exercise: long timelines, expensive tooling, consultants everywhere, and a lot of compliance work that exists mainly to survive an audit. As a ~40-person, engineering-driven SaaS company, we needed the same level of trust and rigor as much larger organizations — but we weren’t willing to accept shelfware, parallel compliance infrastructure, or controls that only exist on paper. We also didn’t stop at ISO 27001.

Bindplane + Statsig Integration: Unified Telemetry for Product Metrics and Experimentation

We’re excited to announce a new integration between Bindplane and Statsig, making it easier to collect, process, and route OpenTelemetry signals into Statsig at scale. This integration provides a seamless way to connect Statsig with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem using Bindplane’s vendor-neutral, OpenTelemetry-native telemetry pipeline. Focus on product insight, not collector operations.

Bindplane + Oodle.ai: AI-Native Observability Meets AI-Driven Telemetry Pipelines

Today, we’re excited to announce a new integration between Bindplane and Oodle.ai — combining an AI-driven, OpenTelemetry-native telemetry pipeline with an AI-native observability platform built for extreme scale. With Bindplane acting as the control plane for telemetry and Oodle.ai providing AI-powered analysis across logs, metrics, and traces, you get a single, intelligent, vendor-neutral pipeline from raw telemetry to actionable insight.