Name: Instrumenting Observability for an IDP on Backstage Using OpenTelemetr - Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz & Haardik Dharma, NYU
Start: 2025-04-01T10:40:00+0100
End: 2025-04-01T11:05:00+0100

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on 1 April. This event is happening in person at Excel London in London, England.

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Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

Backstage, has emerged as a powerful solution to centralize these resources, improving developer productivity and efficiency. However, achieving robust observability for an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) built on Backstage is critical to monitor its usage, health, and performance. OpenTelemetry (OTel), a vendor-neutral observability framework, offers the perfect toolkit for achieving this goal.

In this session, we will demonstrate how to instrument and extend Backstage to collect custom observability metrics using OpenTelemetry. Attendees will gain practical insights into setting up and integrating an OpenTelemetry metrics service with the Backstage backend to push metrics to an OpenTelemetry Collector.

Key Takeaways:
1. Foundational Concepts
2. Hands-On Implementation
3. Integration and Visualization Using OpenTelemetry
4. Practical Applications

By the end, Participants will get equipped with the knowledge and tools to instrument observability for their Backstage deployments.

Speakers

Haardik Dharma

Developer, NYU

Haardik is currently working as a Software Developer at Civo. Before joining Civo, he worked with the Kubernetes Working Group Policy as part of the Linux Foundation Mentorship. Haardik is passionate about all things cloud-native and open-source software. When he is not working, he... Read More →

Ekansh Gupta

SDE, SigNoz

Ekansh is a Software Development Engineer, with active involvement in various open-source and cloud native communities for upwards two years now. He was previously an SDE Intern at SteamLabs. He is also a speaker for a couple of talks at PyCon, KubeCon and MozFests. Ekansh is a Google... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

BackstageCon, Transforming dev experience+streamlining dev workflow+doing more with less using Backstage

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CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

Haardik Dharma

Ekansh Gupta

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