Walking the OpenTelemetry Tightrope: 3 common problems (and how to fix them)

​A great OpenTelemetry set up is about balance. If you don't manage your data complexity correctly, you'll experience performance issues and escalating costs. Make it too simple, and you fly blind during incidents. In this session, Annie explores three major OpenTelemetry pitfalls: ineffective sampling, high-cardinality metrics, and fragmented traces, and how they show up in Kubernetes and Lambda deployments. You’ll walk away with instrumentation strategies and configuration choices that will keep your telemetry actionable and affordable - without losing your footing.