In this episode, Steve Flanders, Senior Director of Engineering at Splunk, shares how the company is driving the next wave of innovation in observability through OpenTelemetry.Steve dives into how open standards are eliminating vendor lock-in, streamlining telemetry data, and delivering unified visibility across today’s cloud-native environments. He discusses best practices for scalable data pipelines, auto-instrumentation, and semantic conventions that enhance monitoring precision. The conversation also looks ahead to the future of observability, covering performance profiling, real-user experience, and AI-driven workloads. This led to showcasing how OpenTelemetry is redefining how teams measure and optimize system reliability.