36 million generated OpenTelemetry spans per hour for GraphQL based queries – that’s just one of the stats we discussed with Justin Scherer, Sr Developer and Consultant, who is leading OTel adoption and Shift-Left observability efforts at NWM. For Justin, OpenTelemetry helps commoditize data gathering in modern cloud native environments so that the backend observability platform of choice can focus on answering higher level business impacting questions.If you are about to roll out OpenTelemetry in your organization then take the advice from Justin such as: Bringing Business Leaders early into the discussion! Engage with the OpenTelemetry community! Understand what your Observability Platform already gives you and focus on the gaps! To learn more about OpenTelemetry check out some of the links we discussed during the podcast:

• OpenTelemetry Website: https://opentelemetry.io/
• IsItObservable: https://isitobservable.io/open-telemetry
• Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/user/pureperformance/adopting-open-observability-across-your-
• LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-scherer-198126160/