All about OTel and Logging on Kubernetes with Loki (Loki Community Call April 2025)

In this pre-recorded Loki Community Call, we talk all about OTel and logging on Kubernetes with Cyril Tovena, Ward Bekker, Jay Clifford, and Nicole van der Hoeven at KubeCon EU 2025 in London. We discuss when why you should switch to OTel and why you shouldn't, what OTLP is exactly, and best practices for ingesting data through an OTLP endpoint.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introductions
00:02:06 What is OpenTelemetry?
00:04:29 Reasons to switch to OTel
00:09:09 Reasons not to switch to OTel
00:16:17 What is OTLP?
00:19:36 Best practices for ingesting data through OTLP endpoint
00:22:25 Migrating from Loki exporter to OTLP endpoint
00:23:50 Different approaches for getting logs from Kubernetes clusters
00:27:33 k8s-monitoring Helm Chart Office Hours playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist
00:28:25 Future changes on the horizon for OTel

RESOURCES:
k8s-monitoring Helm Chart Office Hours playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist
Loki docs: https://gra.fan/lokidocs

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