# Juraci Paixão Kröhling

> CEO of OllyGarden, OpenTelemetry Governance Committee member, emeritus maintainer of the OpenTelemetry Collector and Jaeger. Creator of the Jaeger Operator, OpenTelemetry Operator, OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB), and load-balancing exporter. Co-founder of Telemetry Drops, an OpenTelemetry training program. Speaker on observability, distributed tracing, and related open-source topics.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://kroehling.de/): identity, featured talks, projects
- [Talks archive](https://kroehling.de/talks/): 63 conference talks
- [Topics](https://kroehling.de/topics/): 17 speaking topics
- [Projects](https://kroehling.de/projects/): OllyGarden, OpenTelemetry, Telemetry Drops, Jaeger Operator, OTel Operator, OCB, load-balancing exporter; emeritus: OTel Collector, Jaeger
- [Press / media kit](https://kroehling.de/press/): 3-language bios, headshots
- [CV](https://kroehling.de/cv/): experience, patents, publications, education
- [Credly badges](https://kroehling.de/badges/): verified credentials

## Topics
- [opentelemetry](https://kroehling.de/topics/opentelemetry/) — 36 talks
- [observability](https://kroehling.de/topics/observability/) — 26 talks
- [tracing](https://kroehling.de/topics/tracing/) — 24 talks
- [collector](https://kroehling.de/topics/collector/) — 15 talks
- [jaeger](https://kroehling.de/topics/jaeger/) — 13 talks
- [kubernetes](https://kroehling.de/topics/kubernetes/) — 13 talks
- [instrumentation](https://kroehling.de/topics/instrumentation/) — 11 talks
- [cost](https://kroehling.de/topics/cost/) — 7 talks
- [governance](https://kroehling.de/topics/governance/) — 6 talks
- [open-source](https://kroehling.de/topics/open-source/) — 6 talks
- [devops](https://kroehling.de/topics/devops/) — 5 talks
- [grafana](https://kroehling.de/topics/grafana/) — 4 talks
- [panel](https://kroehling.de/topics/panel/) — 4 talks
- [go](https://kroehling.de/topics/go/) — 2 talks
- [keynote](https://kroehling.de/topics/keynote/) — 2 talks
- [logs](https://kroehling.de/topics/logs/) — 1 talk
- [performance](https://kroehling.de/topics/performance/) — 1 talk

## All talks
- [The OpenTelemetry mistakes I keep seeing (and how to stop making them)](https://kroehling.de/talks/2026-07-09-wearedevelopers-otel-mistakes/) — WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe 2026 · July 9, 2026 · Berlin, Germany · tags: opentelemetry, observability, instrumentation
- [The Hidden Cost of Bad Telemetry: Finding and Fixing What's Hurting Your Observability](https://kroehling.de/talks/2026-04-16-mastering-obs-hidden-cost-bad-telemetry/) — Mastering Observability 2026 · April 16, 2026 · Online,  · tags: opentelemetry, cost, collector
- [Weniger Sammeln, mehr Verstehen – hin zu proaktivem Reliability Engineering](https://kroehling.de/talks/2026-04-16-mastering-obs-weniger-sammeln/) — Mastering Observability 2026 · April 16, 2026 · Online,  · tags: observability, cost, tracing
- [Day-2 Reality Check: Taming Wasteful Telemetry](https://kroehling.de/talks/2026-03-26-kubecon-eu-taming-wasteful-telemetry/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · March 26, 2026 · Amsterdam, Netherlands · tags: opentelemetry, cost, collector, kubernetes
- [OpenTelemetry Project Update and 'Ask the Experts'](https://kroehling.de/talks/2026-03-24-kubecon-eu-otel-project-update/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · March 24, 2026 · Amsterdam, Netherlands · tags: opentelemetry, governance, panel
- [OpenTelemetry Gateways: Enforce, Transform, Route](https://kroehling.de/talks/2026-03-23-observability-day-otel-gateways/) — Observability Day Europe 2026 · March 23, 2026 · Amsterdam, Netherlands · tags: opentelemetry, collector, cost
- [Observability Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks](https://kroehling.de/talks/2026-03-23-observability-day-welcome/) — Observability Day Europe 2026 · March 23, 2026 · Amsterdam, Netherlands · tags: observability, keynote
- [Instrumentation Score: The Difference Between Telemetry and Good Telemetry](https://kroehling.de/talks/2025-11-11-kubecon-na-instrumentation-score/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 · November 11, 2025 · Atlanta, GA · tags: opentelemetry, instrumentation, observability
- [There's a Lot of Bad Telemetry Out There](https://kroehling.de/talks/2025-11-10-observability-day-bad-telemetry/) — Observability Day NA 2025 · November 10, 2025 · Atlanta, GA · tags: opentelemetry, cost, collector
- [Panel: Surviving and Thriving With OpenTelemetry: A Day 2 Operations](https://kroehling.de/talks/2025-11-10-observability-day-panel/) — Observability Day NA 2025 · November 10, 2025 · Atlanta, GA · tags: opentelemetry, collector, panel
- [What's Bad Telemetry Anyway?](https://kroehling.de/talks/2025-10-14-datadog-berlin/) — Datadog User Group Berlin · October 14, 2025 · Berlin,  · tags: opentelemetry, cost, observability
- [Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: A Gateway to Modern Observability](https://kroehling.de/talks/2025-07-02-cloudland/) — CloudLand 2025 · July 2, 2025 · Soltau,  · tags: opentelemetry, observability
- [Instrumentação com OpenTelemetry: Técnicas e Boas Práticas](https://kroehling.de/talks/2025-05-06-gophercon/) — GopherCon LATAM 2025 · May 6, 2025 · Florianópolis, SC · tags: opentelemetry, instrumentation, go
- [OTel Sucks (But Also Rocks!)](https://kroehling.de/talks/2025-04-03-kubecon-eu-otel-sucks/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · April 3, 2025 · London,  · tags: opentelemetry, collector, governance
- [Introduction to OpenTelemetry](https://kroehling.de/talks/2025-01-23-datadog-user-group/) — Datadog User Group Berlin · January 23, 2025 · Berlin,  · tags: opentelemetry, observability
- [OpenTelemetry Project Update](https://kroehling.de/talks/2024-11-04-kubecon-na/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 · November 13, 2024 · Salt Lake City, UT · tags: opentelemetry, governance, logs
- [Kubernetes Community Day Austria](https://kroehling.de/talks/2024-10-10-kcd-austria/) — Kubernetes Community Day · October 10, 2024 · Vienna,  · tags: observability, kubernetes, keynote
- [You Choose - Data Pipelines](https://kroehling.de/talks/2024-10-08-you-choose/) — You Choose YouTube Series · October 8, 2024 · Online,  · tags: opentelemetry, collector
- [OpenTelemetry Governance Panel](https://kroehling.de/talks/2024-06-25-otel-community-day/) — OTel Community Day · June 25, 2024 · Seattle, WA · tags: opentelemetry, governance, panel
- [Demystifying Sampling](https://kroehling.de/talks/2024-06-06-cncf-duesseldorf/) — CNCF Düsseldorf · June 6, 2024 · Düsseldorf,  · tags: opentelemetry, observability
- [Menu de Degustação para OTel Collector](https://kroehling.de/talks/2024-05-24-cncf-santa-catarina/) — CNCF Santa Catarina · May 24, 2024 · Online,  · tags: opentelemetry, collector
- [Real-World Sampling – Lessons Learned After Reducing ~80% of Our O11y Costs](https://kroehling.de/talks/2024-03-19-observability-day/) — Observability Day · March 19, 2024 · Paris,  · tags: opentelemetry, cost, collector
- [Building Resilient Observability Pipelines in Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry Collector](https://kroehling.de/talks/2024-03-18-rejekts/) — Cloud_Native Rejekts · March 18, 2024 · Paris,  · tags: opentelemetry, collector, kubernetes
- [Estado da Arte na Observabilidade 🇧🇷](https://kroehling.de/talks/2024-02-23-kcd-sp/) — Kubernetes Community Days - São Paulo · February 23, 2024 · Online,  · tags: observability, open-source, kubernetes
- [The Humans of OTel - KubeCon NA 2023](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-12-20-humans-of-otel/) — OpenTelemetry YouTube Channel · December 20, 2023 · Online,  · tags: opentelemetry, governance
- [Getting started with OpenTelemetry, with Juraci Paixão Kröhling (Grafana Office Hours #23)](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-12-08-grafana-office-hours/) — Grafana Office Hours · December 8, 2023 · Online,  · tags: opentelemetry, instrumentation, grafana
- [Encore: Best practices in Observability and OpenTelemetry at Deutsche Bank](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-12-06-grafana-and-friends/) — Meetup: Grafana and Friends · December 6, 2023 · Berlin,  · tags: opentelemetry, observability, grafana
- [E11 - The One Where We Geek Out on OpenTelemetry with Juraci Paixão Kröhling of Grafana Labs](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-11-21-geeking-out/) — Geeking Out Podcast · November 21, 2023 · Online,  · tags: opentelemetry, governance, grafana
- [🚨 Contribfest: OpenTelemetry Contribfest](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-11-08-kubecon-na/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 · November 8, 2023 · Chicago, IL · tags: opentelemetry, collector, open-source
- [O fantástico mundo da observabilidade](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-09-29-linuxtips/) — Aniversário da LinuxTips · September 29, 2023 · Online,  · tags: observability
- [Unlocking Observability: Your Gateway to OpenTelemetry](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-05-09-cncf-luxembourg/) — Cloud Native Luxembourg Meetup · May 9, 2023 · Online,  · tags: opentelemetry, observability
- [Dissecando rastreamento distribuído](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-05-06-devopsdays-aracaju/) — DevOpsDays Aracaju · May 6, 2023 · Aracaju, SE · tags: tracing, jaeger, devops
- [Panel Discussion: The Present and Future of Open Source Observability](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-04-18-kubecon-eu/) — Observability Day · April 18, 2023 · Amsterdam,  · tags: observability, panel, open-source
- [Observable Lightning Talks March 2023](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-03-22-is-it-observable/) — Is it Observable · March 22, 2023 · Online,  · tags: opentelemetry, collector
- [Observabilidade com Grafana OpenSource e Rastreamento Distribuído](https://kroehling.de/talks/2023-02-01-grafana/) — Grafana Account Day · February 1, 2023 · Online,  · tags: grafana, opentelemetry, tracing, observability
- [Tudo o que SREs PRECISAM saber sobre OpenTelemetry](https://kroehling.de/talks/2022-12-10-devopsdays-recife/) — DevOpsDays Recife · December 10, 2022 · Recife, PE · tags: opentelemetry, devops, observability
- [Tudo o que SREs PRECISAM saber sobre OpenTelemetry](https://kroehling.de/talks/2022-10-08-devopsdays-fortaleza/) — DevOpsDays Fortaleza · October 8, 2022 · Fortaleza, CE · tags: opentelemetry, devops, observability
- [Tudo o que você PRECISA saber sobre OpenTelemetry](https://kroehling.de/talks/2022-01-18-kcd-brasil/) — Kubernetes Community Days Brasil 2022 · January 18, 2022 · Virtual,  · tags: opentelemetry, observability, kubernetes
- [OpenTelemetry Collector deep dive](https://kroehling.de/talks/2021-11-10-devoops/) — DevOops 2021 · November 10, 2021 · Virtual, St. Petersburg · tags: opentelemetry, collector, go, devops
- [OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment Patterns](https://kroehling.de/talks/2021-10-13-kubecon-na/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 · October 13, 2021 · Virtual, Los Angeles · tags: opentelemetry, collector, kubernetes
- [Sampling in Distributed Tracing](https://kroehling.de/talks/2021-05-17-o11yfest/) — o11yfest · May 17, 2021 · Online,  · tags: tracing, collector, opentelemetry
- [Diving deep into Jaeger and OpenTelemetry with Juraci Paixão Kröhling](https://kroehling.de/talks/2021-04-30-open-observability/) — OpenObservability Talks · April 30, 2021 · Online,  · tags: opentelemetry, jaeger, observability
- [All you need to know about OpenTelemetry](https://kroehling.de/talks/2021-04-27-cncf-linz/) — Cloud Native Computing Linz meetup · April 27, 2021 · Online, Linz · tags: opentelemetry, observability
- [Distributed tracing deep dive](https://kroehling.de/talks/2020-12-05-devoops/) — DevOops 2020 · December 5, 2020 · Virtual, St. Petersburg · tags: tracing, jaeger, kubernetes, devops
- [Distributed Tracing for beginners](https://kroehling.de/talks/2020-02-02-fosdem/) — FOSDEM 2020 · February 2, 2020 · Brussels,  · tags: tracing, instrumentation
- [Observing chaos: how distributed tracing brings observability to a service mess](https://kroehling.de/talks/2019-11-06-devoxx/) — Devoxx · November 6, 2019 · Antwerp,  · tags: tracing, jaeger, observability, kubernetes
- [Intro + Deep Dive: Jaeger](https://kroehling.de/talks/2019-05-23-kubecon-eu/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 · May 23, 2019 · Barcelona,  · tags: jaeger, tracing, kubernetes
- [What are my microservices doing?](https://kroehling.de/talks/2019-05-09-redhat-summit/) — Red Hat Summit · May 9, 2019 · Boston, MA · tags: jaeger, tracing, kubernetes
- [What are my Microservices Doing?](https://kroehling.de/talks/2018-04-27-gids/) — Great Indian Developer Summit · April 27, 2019 · Bangalore,  · tags: tracing, observability
- [Advanced Distributed Tracing](https://kroehling.de/talks/2019-04-25-gids/) — Great Indian Developer Summit · April 25, 2019 · Bangalore,  · tags: tracing
- [Introduction to OpenTracing](https://kroehling.de/talks/2018-10-25-tracingsummit/) — Tracing Summit · October 25, 2018 · Edinburgh,  · tags: tracing, instrumentation, open-source
- [What are My Microservices Doing?](https://kroehling.de/talks/2018-10-24-opensourcesummit/) — Open Source Summit · October 24, 2018 · Edinburgh,  · tags: tracing, jaeger, observability, open-source
- [Advanced Microservices Tracing with Jaeger](https://kroehling.de/talks/2018-06-21-devnation/) — DevNation Live · June 21, 2018 · Virtual,  · tags: jaeger, tracing, instrumentation
- [Introdução à OpenTracing e Jaeger](https://kroehling.de/talks/2018-05-27-soujava/) — SouJava Webinar · May 27, 2018 · Online,  · tags: tracing, jaeger
- [Jaeger Project Deep Dive](https://kroehling.de/talks/2018-05-03-kubecon-eu-deepdive/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 · May 3, 2018 · Copenhagen,  · tags: jaeger, tracing, kubernetes
- [Jaeger Project Intro](https://kroehling.de/talks/2018-05-02-kubecon-eu-intro/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 · May 2, 2018 · Copenhagen,  · tags: jaeger, tracing, kubernetes
- [Deep Dive into Java Microservices - The Observability Problem](https://kroehling.de/talks/2018-03-21-meetup/) — RecdoTech Meetup · March 21, 2018 · Munich,  · tags: tracing, observability
- [Finding Performance Bottlenecks with Distributed Tracing](https://kroehling.de/talks/2018-03-14-javaland/) — JavaLand · March 14, 2018 · Brühl,  · tags: tracing, jaeger, performance, instrumentation
- [OpenTracing: One Instrumentation for Metrics, Logs and Distributed Tracing](https://kroehling.de/talks/2017-09-11-opensourcesummit/) — Open Source Summit · September 11, 2017 · Los Angeles, CA · tags: tracing, jaeger, instrumentation, open-source
- [Operational and Business Insights from Tracing Distributed Microservices](https://kroehling.de/talks/2017-05-23-cloudnative-night/) — Cloud Native Night · May 23, 2017 · Munich,  · tags: tracing, observability
- [OpenTracing](https://kroehling.de/talks/2017-05-04-microservices-meetup/) — Microservices Meetup · May 4, 2017 · Munich,  · tags: tracing, instrumentation
- [Operational and Business Insights from Tracing Distributed Microservices](https://kroehling.de/talks/2017-04-25-lightweight-java-user-group/) — Lightweight Java User Group · April 25, 2017 · Munich,  · tags: tracing, instrumentation
- [Operational and Business Insights from Tracing Distributed Microservices](https://kroehling.de/talks/2017-03-29-kubecon-eu/) — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2017 · March 29, 2017 · Berlin,  · tags: tracing, observability, kubernetes