A practical guide to adopting OpenTelemetry at scale with Grafana Cloud

In the 2025 Observability Survey, 71% of respondents reported that their organization is using both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, and more than half said their investment in both has grown year over year.

It’s clear that users want open standards and businesses demand quick and extensible coverage of their estate. But while OpenTelemetry and Prometheus provide great standards and protocols, there are many choices that need to be made by teams in order to adopt and get the full value of both at scale.

In this session, Grafana Labs Engineering Developer Programs Director, Ted Young, and Senior Product Manager Edwin Onattu will demo Grafana Cloud’s native support for both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, leveraging Grafana Beyla for eBPF-based autoinstrumentation and Grafana Alloy, a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines, as a production-grade, optimized collector for open standards. The speakers will also discuss the Fleet Management feature and new developments like the instrumentation hub that enable customization at enterprise scale, increased productivity, and cost efficiency for ingest.