Bindplane at KubeCon EU '26 in Amsterdam

Bindplane will be attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam on March 23rd–26th! We'd love the chance to connect with you in person. Come say hello, see Bindplane in action, and learn how we streamline observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Book a meeting with us at the OpenTelemetry Booth!

Who's Joining?

You'll get to meet OpenTelemetry contributors from the Bindplane team:

• Andy Keller — OTel OpAMP project maintainer
• Ekansh Gupta — OTel community contributor
• Adnan Rahic — OTel docs & blog contributor

Where to Find Us

• Hall 5, Gouda Zone, Project Pavilion, Kiosk P-19A: We'll be joining fellow OpenTelemetry community members here.
• Book a time to chat with us offline!

What's on the Agenda

We'll demo two topics and have discussions with the community at the OpenTelemetry Booth. Come find us if you want to go deeper on either of these!

🔗 OpAMP Gateway Extension — Alpha Release

Andy, Dakota, and the team recently launched the OpAMP Gateway Extension in alpha. It’s a new OpenTelemetry Collector extension that brings centralized fleet management to network-segmented and firewalled environments where collectors can't reach the OpAMP server directly.

Rather than a separate binary, it runs inside a collector at the network boundary, acting as an OpAMP server for downstream agents while fanning their connections into a small upstream pool. This means the OpAMP server sees a handful of connections regardless of how many agents are in your fleet.

Want the full story? Check out the announcement blog post by Andy, or watch him walk through it on the OpenObservabilityTalks podcast. We'll also be happy to demo it live on the KubeCon EU floor!

🛠️ OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder — Generally Available

The OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder is our open-source tool for building custom OTel Collector distributions from a manifest.yaml file. It supports local builds, Docker, Google Cloud Build, and GitHub Actions, handles multi-platform binaries, package formats (APK, DEB, RPM, TAR.GZ), and automated releases so you can focus on defining the components you need.

When we showed up to KubeCon EU in London last year, the Distribution Builder was fresh out of alpha. Since then it's grown significantly. I’m excited to announce it's now generally available, shipping two brand-new features:

• No-dependency CLI: Run the distribution builder directly from your terminal without any local toolchain setup. No Docker, Go, or Python required.
• manifest.yaml generator: Already have a working collector.yaml? Point the new generator at it and get a ready-to-use manifest.yaml in return. Going from a running collector config to a custom distribution has never been faster.

If you're building or maintaining a custom OTel Collector distro, stop by and we'll walk you through it!

💬 And More

• Expert Insights: Our team will be on hand to chat about best practices, answer questions, and talk through any observability challenges you're facing.
• Roadmap: Get a sneak peek into what's coming next for Bindplane and vendor-neutral OTel-native observability.

Don't Miss Ekansh's Presentation

We're proud to mention that our very own Ekansh Gupta will be co-presenting with Shivay Lamba from Couchbase on:

• "Observability for Your Internal Developer Platform: Instrumenting Backstage with OpenTelemetry"

Make sure to add it to your schedule!

Don't Miss the Broader OTel Community Sessions

KubeCon EU Amsterdam is shaping up to be one of the biggest OpenTelemetry events yet. The OTel community has a packed schedule across the main conference, Observability Day on March 23rd, and the Maintainer Summit on March 22nd.

See the full rundown on the OpenTelemetry blog.

We look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam! If you have any questions or want more details beforehand, don't hesitate to let us know.

Safe travels and see you soon!