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Pipeline design, deployment patterns, and scaling.

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# Architecture

Pipeline design, deployment patterns, and scaling.

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MetricsArchitectureSemantic Conventions

## Three OpenTelemetry talks worth watching from KubeCon India 2026

Our picks from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: a Prometheus outage post-mortem, a deep dive into the hidden cost of telemetry format conversions, and how to instrument AI agents with OpenTelemetry.

Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read

](https://telemetrydrops.com/blog/best-otel-talks-kubecon-india-2026/)[

Semantic ConventionsArchitectureCollector

## OTLP support is not OpenTelemetry support

Accepting OTLP only means a vendor opened a port and can decode the wire format. Being OpenTelemetry-native means preserving and understanding the data model: semantic conventions, a shared resource model, and version drift.

May 25, 2026 · 5 min read

](https://telemetrydrops.com/blog/otlp-is-not-otel-native/)[

CollectorInstrumentationArchitecture

## Six OpenTelemetry talks worth watching from KubeCon EU 2026

Our picks from KubeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam: three applied observability talks showing real-world OTel deployments, and three core project updates that affect every Collector operator.

Apr 15, 2026 · 5 min read

](https://telemetrydrops.com/blog/best-otel-talks-kubecon-eu-2026/)