Stream: Virtual Room 2
Time: 16:15 - 17:00
Modern IT operations demand proactive issue detection, and observability has become crucial for understanding today’s complex, distributed application landscapes - including mainframe environments. This session introduces the fundamentals of observability and highlights its value, focusing on OpenTelemetry as the emerging industry standard for capturing metrics, logs, and traces. We’ll explore how OpenTelemetry zero-code instrumentation can be applied on z/OS and Linux on IBM Z, enabling existing workloads to emit standardized telemetry without application source code modifications. We’ll showcase how these capabilities can be implemented with minimal operational disruption. Finally, we’ll provide an overview of current and planned activities within the OpenTelemetry community and the Open Mainframe Project, focused on advancing consistent, enterprise-wide observability across IBM Z and LinuxONE - from hardware to applications.
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Ruediger Schulze is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Germany Lab and as Tech Lead responsible for Observability and OpenTelemetry for IBM Z and LinuxONE. He is an Open Mainframe Project Ambassador and a co-chair of the OpenTelemetry on Mainframe SIG in the OpenTelemetry community. He has a history as Cloud Solution Architect and enjoys building innovative hybrid cloud solutions for his clients.
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