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RapDev + Datadog Webinar
Scaling OpenTelemetry: Turning Data into Actionable Insights
Wednesday
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Nov 18, 2026
November 18, 2026 12:00 PM
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November 18, 2026 1:00 PM
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Online (Zoom)
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Webinar
Join Datadog and RapDev to learn where OpenTelemetry adoption stalls after the decision is made and how to get from portable data to real answers.
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OpenTelemetry adoption rarely fails at the decision. It stalls months later, with collectors nobody owns, rising ingest bills, and traces that still can’t tell you which service broke.
We will cover:
- The pitfalls that show up after the decision is made: unowned collectors, cardinality that quietly multiplies your costs, sampling that discards the traces you needed, and semantic conventions that drift across teams
- How to get there from where you are, whether you’re a Datadog customer adopting OTel or migrating off another backend, including how to survive the period where you’re running both
- How to enrich OTel data with the custom attributes and business context your teams actually need, without re-instrumenting every service
- What OTel can’t give you on its own: the host, container, network, and cloud context that turns a span into an answer
OpenTelemetry adoption rarely fails at the decision. It stalls months later, with collectors nobody owns, rising ingest bills, and traces that still can’t tell you which service broke.
We will cover:
- The pitfalls that show up after the decision is made: unowned collectors, cardinality that quietly multiplies your costs, sampling that discards the traces you needed, and semantic conventions that drift across teams
- How to get there from where you are, whether you’re a Datadog customer adopting OTel or migrating off another backend, including how to survive the period where you’re running both
- How to enrich OTel data with the custom attributes and business context your teams actually need, without re-instrumenting every service
- What OTel can’t give you on its own: the host, container, network, and cloud context that turns a span into an answer
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