OTel in Practice: How We Scaled Kafka Log Ingestion for OTel by 150%

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Catch the full recording as Dakota shares how we solved a customer issue by increasing OpenTelemetry log ingestion by 150% and clearing a massive Kafka backlog in under 48 hours.

Here's a sneak peek of the key takeaways :

• Early batching boosted throughput by 41%
• Switching to the Franz-Go client unlocked 35% more performance
• Changing the encoding from OTLP JSON to JSON increased performance another 30%

Scaling telemetry pipelines isn’t easy, especially with Kafka, at a massive scale.