What you missed at OTel Unplugged 2026 in 8 minutes!

OTel Unplugged 2026 was different by design.

Held alongside FOSDEM in Brussels, this was an unconference built by the OpenTelemetry community, for the community. No sales pitches. No product demos. Just honest conversations about what’s working, what’s broken, and where OTel needs to go next.

In this recap, you’ll hear short interviews and reflections from engineers, maintainers, and practitioners on:

• Contributing on real-life issues to benefit the community
• Stability — will we reach 1.0?
• OBI and eBPF
• Arrow
• OpAMP and fleet management
• Building custom collectors
• Weaver
• What the community wants to focus on next, and much more...

OTel Unplugged is about listening first. This video captures that energy.

If you were there, thanks for the conversations.
If you missed it, this is the vibe.

🔗 Learn more about the event: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-unplugged-fosdem/

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:17 Diana Todea

00:55 Imma Valls Bernaus

01:07 Michele Mancioppi

01:26 Antonio Jimenez Martinez

02:04 Juliano Costa

02:43 Martin Thwaites

03:10 Richard (RichiH) Hartmann

03:38 Riccardo Magliocchetti

03:54 Juraci Paixão Kröhling

05:11 Bastian Krol

05:35 Dan Gomez Blanco

06:08 Arthur Sens

06:59 Juan Vega

07:12 Marco Pernigo

07:25 Ted Young & Austin Parker