Observable Lightning Talks December 2025

Observable Lightning Talks is back with new speakers for the December 2025 edition. Come and join us to hear tips and tricks from Industry Experts.

Observable lighting talks open the stage to three speakers sharing their experiences, recommendations, best practices, and more.

And if you have any questions for our speakers, you can ask them during the live panel discussion.

Come and join us on the 16th of December  for the new edition of Observable Lighting Talks.

# Where?

The event will be broadcast live on Linkedin, Twitch, and of course Youtube.

Observability and SRE practices rely on many frameworks available on the market. However, since technology evolves at a very fast pace, it can be difficult to keep track of the latest solutions and technologies and implement all the best practices.

To help you improve your practices and understand the best of breed of the latest technology, IsitObservable is launching a new Show: Observable Lightning Talks.

The concept is simple: Thought leaders from the observability industry will help us along in our technology journey.

Each Observable Lighting Talk will host three speakers covering three different topics that we all love:

The  Observable lightning talk of December 2025 is planned on the 16th of December  between 12PM - 1:30PM EST (6pm-7:30PM CEST)

Here is the Agenda for the first edition:

# Agenda

The 3 presentations of this edition are :

# What is OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation all about

Nikola Grcevski, Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs

Imagine you've just been given the responsibility of monitoring a number of applications in your organization. Maybe it's a new job, maybe it's a reorganization or acquisition. Where do you possibly start in understanding the application behaviour in production? What's causing these slow transactions and errors? In this talk we'll show you how you can get deep insights into a completely unknown and uninstrumented production environment, without any changes to the existing cluster configuration or applications, by using OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI).

# Rethinking Cloud-Native Operations and Debugging with Kagent

Lin Sun, Head of Open Source at Solo.io

Cloud-native engineers face increasing operational complexity: debugging connectivity issues, generating and acting on Prometheus alerts, managing progressive rollouts with Argo, and enforcing zero-trust security across clusters. As cloud networking, security, and reliability scale, how can AI agents transform these workflows?
In this demo-driven talk, Lin will showcase how AI agents can streamline cloud-native operations—debugging connectivity issues and integrating seamlessly with CNCF projects such as Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Istio, Jaeger, Prometheus, Gateway API, kgateway, and kagent.

# OTel Me About It: Latest Updates in WASI Otel

Andrew Steurer, software engineer at Cognizant

With WebAssembly firmly in production, it is more important than ever to have observable Wasm workloads. OpenTelemetry is the gold standard for modern observability and now it’s coming to WebAssembly. This talk presents the WASI OTel proposal, a new WASI interface that enables using OpenTelemetry SDKs from within your Wasm components. You’ll see how traces, metrics, and logs can be emitted seamlessly from Wasm applications, with a live demo using Spin, the leading framework for building and running serverless Wasm workloads.