Blueprints for OTel Success: Standardizing Observability at Scale with Dan Gomez Blanco

"There is no single way to deploy OpenTelemetry at scale—and that’s exactly the challenge." As organizations adopt OTel across teams and environments, they face tough questions around standardization, configuration, and operating resilient observability pipelines. To address these challenges, the OpenTelemetry community has introduced Blueprints and Reference Implementations—practical guidance on topics like data standards, consistent agent and collector configuration, pipeline resilience, and intelligent sampling. In this episode, we’re joined by Dan Gomez Blanco, maintainer of the OpenTelemetry End-User SIG, to explore real-world reference architectures from organizations like Skyscanner, Adobe, and Mastodon. Tune in to learn how the community is turning OTel complexity into shared best practices—and how you can contribute your own blueprint